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ALBERT PLUxAlMER, 
Historian. 




MA.T. GEN. C. C. AUGUR, 
Commanding 1st Division 19tli Army Corps, April, 186S. 




MAJ. GEN. N. P. BANKS, 
19th Army Corps. 




COL. EBEN F. STONE, 
48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




LIEUT. COL. .JAMES O'BRIEN, 

48th Mass. Regt. Inf. Killed at Port Hudson, La., 
Mav 27. 1863. 




LIEUT. COL. EBEN P. STANWOOD, 

48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1863. 




DR. Y. G. HURD, 

Surgeon 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




SAMUEL J. SPALDING. 
Chaplain 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




MAJOR GEO. WHEATLAND, 
48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




COL. E. P. CHAPIN, 
Com. 1st Brigade, 1st Div. 19th Army Corps, 1X6.* 



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CAPT. MOSES B. MERRILL, 
Co. B. 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1863. 




CAPT. WM. PETTENGILL, 
Co. C, 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




CAPT. CHAS. HOWES. 
Co. E. 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 186J 




CAPT. E. J. SHERMAN, 
€o. F, 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1862. 




CAPT. J SrOTM^ TODD, 
Co. K. 4Sth MasH. Rpst inf., 1S6.1. 




CAPT. Yi. K. SCHOFF, 
Co. G. 48th Mass. Regt. Inf., 1863- 




STATE HOUSE, BATON ROUGE. LA. 
Burned in Dec, 1862. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT 

M. V. M. 



DURING THE CIVIL WAR 



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PREFACE 



In preparing this history, I have been ably assisted 
by Lieut. Col. Eben P. Stanwood, Hon. E. J. 
Sherman and the notes prepared by the late Wm. H. 
Bartlett. To these surviving comrades, I extend my 
warmest thanks. 

ALBERT PLTJMMEB, Historian. 



INTRODUCTORY 



I have undertaken to write a history of the Forty- 
eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the Civil 
War in diary form from the commencement to the 
close of the service. Undoubtedly much more might 
have been written giving many interesting particulars 
concerning the different companies and incidents re- 
lating to individual members of those companies, but 
T have thought best to write a modest, true and valu- 
able presentation of the main features of the services 
rendered by the regiment to the Government. It is not 
an easy task to write such a history as will please 
everybody. I hope my efforts will be reasonably and 
charitably considered by my comrades. 

ALBERT PLUMMER, Historian. 



FORTY- EIGHTH REGIMENT M. V. M. 



Few men in the North previous to April 12, 1861, 
thought that the men of the South would be so rash as 
to precipitate a war between the two sections, and when 
on that day the news flashed over the wires that the 
Southern fire-eaters had fired upon Fort Sumter, and 
that the national ensign had been pulled down, a great 
wave of horror and indignation swept over the land. A 
call for 75,000 men for three months' service was issued 
by President Lincoln on the fifteenth day of April, 
1861. 

Many persons who considered themselves wise, pro- 
nounced the number too great, and to most people it did 
seem to be a vast army — three times greater than the 
whole regular army previous to that time. But little 
actual fighting was done by the regiments furnished 
under this call, but subsequently other calls were made 
for volunteers to serve for three years or during the 
war. 

On August 4, 1862, President Lincoln issued orders 
for a draft of 300,000 men for nine months' service, but 
leave was granted to Governor Andrew to fill the quota 
of Massachusetts by volunteers, and it was in answer to 
this call that the men who later became the 48th 



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Massachusetts Infantry were recruited. It was the 
intention (and great efforts were made by the gentle- 
men interested in its formation) to make this an ex- 
clusively Essex County regiment, but the exigencies of 
the war made it imperative that all regiments in process 
of formation should be immediately sent to the front, 
and for this reason several partially formed regiments 
were consolidated, and sent forward. 

The regiments sent from Massachusetts under this 
call were designated as follows: — 

3d, Col. Silas Eichmond; 4th, Col. Henry Walker; 
5th, Col. George H. Pierson; 6th, Col. Albert Fol- 
lansbee; 8th, Col. Frederick J. Coffin; 42d, Col. Isaac 
S. Burrill; 43d, Col. Charles S. Holbrook; 44th, Col. 
Francis L. Lee; 45th, Col. Charles R. Codman; 46th, 
Col. George Bowler; 47th, Col. Lucius B. Marsh; 48th, 
Col. Eben F. Stone; 49th, Col. William F. Bartlett; 
50th, Col. Carlos P. Messer; 51st, Col. Augustus B. R. 
Sprague; 52d, Col. Halbert S. Greenleaf; 53d, Col. 
John W. Kimball, and the 11th Battery, Capt. Edward 
J. Jones, which was the only battery of nine months' 
men raised in the Commonwealth. 

Of these regiments, the 3d, 5th, 6th, 8th, 43d, 44th, 
45th, 46th, and 51st, served their time on the Eastern 
coast; the 4th, 42d, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 52d, and 
63d served in the Army of the Gulf, on the Mississippi 
River; the 11th Battery served in the Army of the 
Potomac. 

During the month of September, 1863, the men being 
recruited for the Essex County regiment began to 
rendezvous in "Camp Lander," Wenham, Mas:-., and 
the Hon. Eben F. Stone, a prominent lawyer of New- 
buryport, was appointed "Commandant of Camp." 



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Barracks had been provided for two or more regi- 
ments, wells sunk, and every arrangement made for the 
comfort of the men, several partially formed companies 
of which came into camp during the month and were 
mustered into the U. S. service as soon as they were 
recruited to a minimum number. 

Not much of special importance occurred to disturb 
the regular routine of camp life while here, the days 
being spent in actively drilling and becoming acquainted 
with the duties of a soldier; but occasionally some 
little break would be made in the monotony of camp 
life; it seems that there had grown up a feeling 
of jealousy among some of the officers of another regi- 
ment in the camp, because Mr. Stone had been 
appointed Commandant of Camp from civil life, and 
without previous military training, when there were 
other officers in camp who had had such training in the 
Volunteer Militia, and on October 24 the dissatisfaction 
culminated in an assault upon Capt. Stone's head- 
quarters with bricks and other missiles, and for a time 
matters assumed rather a warlike aspect, but finally 
settled down with but very little bloodshed. 

The quota of Massachusetts under this call was 
19,090 men. The great numbers already in the field 
and the fact that the last previous call of July 2, for 
300,000 men for three years' service had not been 
entirely filled, made it more difficult to secure these 
additional men but the officers worked with a will, and 
soon no doubt was felt that the object would be attained, 
and the call promptly answered. The first company to 
secure the requisite number of recruits was the company 
from Newburyport under command of Capt. Stone, 
which was mustered September 16, and from that time 



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forward companies were mustered as they obtained the 
requisite number of men, until about November 1, when 
there were about 750 men in camp, distributed in eight 
different companies. 

On the day previous to Thanksgiving Day the several 
companies were furloughed to go home to spend 
Thanksgiving, to report again in camp Saturday morn- 
ing; only one company reported in accordance with 
orders, and as no other company put in an appearance, 
the Captain gave his men leave to return home, but to 
report again Monday morning, which they did, as did 
the other companies, only to feel a little chagrined to 
find that Adjt. Gen. Schouler, with a part of hi.s staff, 
had visited the camp on Sunday, and was very angry to 
find the camp deserted by all but one Lieutenant and 
just enough men for camp guard. His remarks were 
reported to have been very forcible, succinct and pithy, 
the air was said to have been lurid. 

He said, "By God ! I'll send this regiment South or 
to Hell !" and the men concluded that they hadn't much 
preference as to the two locations. As a compromise 
between, the regiment was ordered to move to Camp 
Meigs, at Eeadville, Mass., forthwith ; but expecting to 
be sent to one of the aforementioned places later on. 
\ December 4, the regiment broke camp at Wenham 

and left for Camp Meigs. While marching through 
Boston at the intersection of Washington and Boylston 
Streets, the two companies from Lawrence, commanded 
respectively by Capts. Colby and Rollins left, being 
transferred to tlie 4th Regiment which had been 
recruiting at Lakcville, Mass., thus filling up that regi- 
ment, and the unorganized 55th Irish Regiment, which 
had been also recruiting at Lakeville was brought to 



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Eeadville, and merged with the remaining six com- 
panies from Wenham, which completed the organization 
of this regiment, thus disposing of all expectation of an 
Essex County regiment. 

All the officers of the Wenham companies petitioned 
the Governor to allow the Lawrence companies to re- 
main as formerly connected. They were a fine body of 
men and officers, and, being in the same camp together 
so long, a strong attachment had sprung up between the 
different companies; but the request was denied. The 
men and officers in the Irish regiment were also much 
dissatisfied, and there were a great many desertions, 
which (it was said) were encouraged by their officers; 
a large number of the latter resigned and others were 
summarily discharged. They had volunteered with the 
understanding that they were to form an Irish regi- 
ment, and they were very indignant that that arrange- 
ment was not carried out. 

The accession of these new men having given the 
regiment the necessary number of men, on December 
6 an election for field officers was held, and the regi- 
ment became the 48th Regiment of Massachusetts In- 
fantry. 

Capt. Eben F. Stone of Newburyport was elected 
Colonel, Mr. James O'Brien of Charlestown was elected 
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Capt. George Wlieatland of 
Salem was elected Major. 

The companies were designated as follows: — Co. A, 
from Newburyport and vicinity; Co. B, from West 
Newbury and vicinity; Co. C, from Salisbury and 
vicinity; Co. D, from Newbury and vicinity; Co. E, 
from Salem and vicinity; Co. F, at large; Co. G, at 



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large; Co. H, from Lowell; Co. I, at large; Co. K, at 
large. 

The line officers were as follows: — Co. A, Capt. 
Woodward, Lieuts. Lawrie and Morrison; Co. B, Capt. 
Stanwood, Lieuts. Rollins and Merrill; Co. C, Capt. 
Pettengill, Lieuts. Currier and Schoff; Co. D, Capt. 
Noyes, Lieuts. Lord and Wilson; Co. E, Capt. Howes, 
Lieuts. Sanders and Lee; Co. F, Capt. Sherman, 
Lieuts. Noyes and Burnett; Co. G, Captain (vacant), 
Lieuts. Rudderham and O'Brien; Co. H, Capt. Rogers, 
Lieuts. Frawley and Maginness; Co. I, Capt. McGuire, 
Lieuts. Smith and Reade; Co. K, Capt. Todd, Lieuts. 
Clark and Bellen. 

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for New York and the South (or the other place previ- 
ously alluded to) and the regiment left at an hour's 
notice, proceeding by rail to Groton, Conn., where they 
went on board the Sound steamer for New York arriv- 
ing there at an early hour in the morning of the 28th 
and going at once on board the "Constellation," an old 
sailing vessel, just arrived from Europe with a load of 
immigrants. It had not been properly cleansed and 
was very foul and dirty; but it is a soldier's duty to 
bear with all sorts of inconveniences, and we soon 
learned to accept them without an undue amount of 
grumbling. There was no chance for a fire on board 
except in the first cabin, consequently the line officers, 
who occupied the second cabin, and the enlisted men 
who were quartered between decks, suffered considerably 
with the cold, but we were consoled with the thought 
that if we were destined for either of the places 
threatened by Gen. Schouler we should not be likely to 
grumble on account of cold weather. 

Friday, January 2, got under way at 12.30 P. M., 
being towed out by tug "Eattler," which cast of! and 
left us at 4.15, taking ashore a large mail for friends left 
at home. 

January 8 we arrived off the mouth of Chesapeake 
Bay with little of special importance transpiring. 
Pilot came on board at 9.30 A. M. and we passed up the 
bay where we found many of the fleet composing the 
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is a part, and came to anchor just below and near 
Fortress Monroe where we remained till January 15, 
when under sailing orders the tug hitched on again and 
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large; Co. H, from Lowell; Co. I, at large; Co. K, at 
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The line officers were as follows: — Co. A, Capt. 
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Stanwood, Lieuts. Rollins and Merrill; Co. C, Capt. 
Pettengill, Lieuts. Currier and Schoff; Co. D, Capt. 
Noyes, Lieuts. Lord and Wilson; Co. E, Capt. Howes, 
Lieuts. Sanders and Lee; Co. F, Capt. Sherman, 
Lieuts. Noyes and Burnett; Co. G, Captain (vacant), 
Lieuts. Rudderham and O'Brien; Co. H, Capt. Rogers, 
Lieuts. Frawloy and Maginness; Co. I, Capt. McGuire, 
Lieuts. Smith and Reade; Co. K, Capt. Todd, Lieuts. 
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December 22. Capt. McGuire of Co. I was discharged 
and on the 26th Lieut. Smith was promoted to fill the 
vacancy. This evening Edward Galligher of Co. H was 
shot dead by Lieut. Lord of Co. D, Provost Marshal, 
while drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest and assault- 
ing the Marshal. 

The regiment remained in Camp Meigs until Decem- 
ber 27 actively drilling and the raw recruits getting 
whipped into shape for active duty in the field, but this 
morning orders were received to break camp and leave 



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for New York and the South (or the other place previ- 
ously alluded to) and the regiment left at an hour's 
notice, proceeding by rail to Groton, Conn., where they 
went on board the Sound steamer for New York arriv- 
ing there at an early hour in the morning of the 28th 
and going at once on board the "Constellation," an old 
sailing vessel, just arrived from Europe with a load of 
immigrants. It had not been properly cleansed and 
was very foul and dirty; but it is a soldier's duty to 
bear with all sorts of inconveniences, and we soon 
learned to accept them without an undue amount of 
grumbling. There was no chance for a fire on board 
except in the first cabin, consequently the line officers, 
who occupied the second cabin, and the enlisted men 
who were quartered between decks, suffered considerably 
with the cold, but we were consoled with the thought 
that if we were destined for either of the places 
threatened by Gen. Schouler we should not be likely to 
grumble on account of cold weather. 

Friday, January 2, got under way at 12.30 P. M., 
being towed out by tug "Eattler," which cast off and 
left us at 4.15, taking ashore a large mail for friends left 
at home. 

January 8 we arrived off the mouth of Chesapeake 
Bay with little of special importance transpiring. 
Pilot came on board at 9.30 A. M, and we passed up the 
bay where we found many of the fleet composing the 
"Banks Expedition" of which we now find the 48th 
is a part, and came to anchor just below and near 
Fortress Monroe where we remained till January 15, 
when under sailing orders the tug hitched on again and 
we sailed away South at 2.30 P. M. in a gale of wind. 



16 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

Think then of your darling boy, not as dead but as 
having gone over to the majority in Heaven. 

Permit me, my dear madam, to mingle my tears in 
gympathy with yours in this hour of your great 
affliction. May God bless and comfort you, I am. 

Sincerely your friend, 
EDGAR J. SHERMAN, Captain. 

Captain Sherman, after returning home, was met by 
the clergyman who officiated at the funeral of the 
young soldier, who said, "Captain, I read your 
letter at the funeral, and I do not think there 
was a dry eye in the audience." "But," said the 
Captain, "did yon not regard the poetry as hereti- 
cal?" "You were fully justified," said the clergy- 
man, "in writing anything you could to comfort 
that poor heart-broken mother. But who knows that 
he died unconverted? Were not his last words, 'God's 
will be done ?' " 

In passing Cape Hatteras we experienced a fierce 
storm, but the old ship floundered safely along through 
the boiling sea with but little serious damage. The vio- 
lent motion of the ship and the corresponding and 
sympathetic motion of our stomachs reminded us forci- 
bly of the old bass aria in Haydn's Oratorio of "The 
Creation," "Rolling in foaming billows uplifted roars 
the boisterous sea." Except these and a few minor 
incidents the voyage was uneventful. 

The vacancy in Captain's office in Co. G was filled 
on January 15 by appointment of Lieut. Schoff to that 
company as Captain. 

On looking at the map of the United States we ob- 
Berve that the State of Louisiana lies on both sides of 




INSIDE REBEL HREASTWORKS. 
Port Hudson, La., After Surrender. July S, LSC.'l. 




CEMETERY BATTERY. 
n-.iUm Rouge. La., Looking Toward Port Hudson. 



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the Mississippi River and that the States of Arkansas 
and Mississippi lay on the right and left banks of that 
great stream, 500 miles of whose lower course was thus 
controlled during the first year of the Civil War by 
those three States unitedly inhabited by hardly as 
many white people as the city of New York. 

If we observe then the course drained by that river 
and its tributaries, commencing with Missouri on its 
right bank and Kentucky on its left bank, we find it 
to consist of eight or nine large States, large portions 
of three or four others, and several large Territories, 
in all a country as large as Europe, as fine as any un- 
der the sun, holding at the commencement of the war 
more people than all the revolted States and destined 
to become one of the most populous and powerful re- 
gions on the face of the globe. 

If any at the opening of the war supposed that those 
powerful States, comprising a great and energetic pop- 
ulation, would ever consent to a peace that would put 
the lower course of that great national outlet to the sea 
in the hands of a foreign power far weaker than them- 
selves, they were blind indeed to the lessons of history. 
The people of Kentucky alone before they were con- 
stituted a State gave formal notice to the Federal Gov- 
ernment that if the United States did not conquer 
Louisiana they would conquer it themselves. In the 
words of a distinguished citizen of that martial State: 
"The mouths of the Mississippi belong by the gift of 
God to the inhabitants of its great valley. Nothing 
but irresistible force can disinherit them." 

Akin to this was the feeling of the men of the North- 
west at the outbreak of the Civil War. With them 
the opening of the Mississippi was an absorbing passion 



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and they entered on that enterprise with alacrity and 
with a grim determination not to cease from their ef- 
forts until that great river which forms a part of the 
life and very existence of the West should be repos- 
sessed, and the insulted ensign of the Eepublic planted 
on the last battlements of the Rebellion. 

By the Summer of 1863, after many a bloody fight 
on the river and on the land, they had reached Vicks- 
burg, and Grant had drawn his lines of investment 
around that stronghold. Meantime their brethren of 
the East had ascended the river from its mouth and 
had taken possession of all the rebel defences on the 
lower Mississippi. Subsequently Farragut, being away 
on the Gulf coast, the rebels seized the opportunity to 
fortify and garrison Port Hudson, in Louisiana. There 
remained then at the opening of the Summer of '63 
these two strongholds, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, 
the retention of which was necessary to the Confeder- 
ates if they would maintain their hold on the Missis- 
sippi. 

Both parties to the struggle realized the importance 
of these positions. Jefferson Davis, while on a visit to 
Mississippi to inspect the defences of Vicksburg, spoke 
as follows in a speech at Jackson before the Mississippi 
Legislature: "Vicksburg and Port Hudson are the 
real points of attack. Every effort will be made to cap- 
ture these places with the object of forcing the naviga- 
tion of the Mississippi and severing the eastern from 
the western portion of the Confederacy. Let all then 
who have at heart the welfare and safety of the coun- 
try go without delay to Vicksburg and Port Hudson. 
Let them go for thirty or sixty or ninety days. Let 
them assist in preserving the Mississippi River, that 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 19 

great artery of our country, and thus conduce more 
than in any other way to the perpetuation of the Con- 
federacy and the success of our cause." 

Most people probably have a tolerably clear idea of 
Grant's campaign against Vicksburg. As the history 
of the 48th Eegiment is inseparably connected with 
the siege and capture of Port Hudson, it is proper that 
at this point some description of that place and its 
defences should be given. 

Port Hudson is situated on a bend on the eastern 
side of the Mississippi about twenty-two miles north 
of Baton Eouge, and 147 miles from New Orleans. It 
is 300 miles below Vicksburg. The bluff rising abruptly 
some forty feet above the surface of the river was cov- 
ered with fortifications for a space of nearly four 
miles, constructed upon the most scientific principles 
of military art and armed with the heaviest and most 
approved guns which England could furnish the Con- 
federates. 

The river as it approaches the bend suddenly nar- 
rows and the current striking the west bank is tlirown 
across with great velocity and carries the channel al- 
most directly under the precipitous cliffs. Any vessel 
attempting the passage would be compelled to run the 
gauntlet of a plunging fire from the batteries which 
commanded the river for several miles above and below. 
Thus it will be seen that on the river side the petition 
was so fortified by nature and art that it was practically 
impregnable. 

On the land side it was scarcely less so. There it 
was protected by a high parapet extending some seven 
or eight miles in a semi-circle from river to river, in 
front of which was a ditch from ten to twelve feet wide 



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and six feet deep. Along nearly the whole line in 
front of this ditch and extending from half a mile to 
a mile from it was formerly a heavy growth of timber. 
This had all been cut down; so that in every direction 
the fallen tops of trees interlaced, trunks blocked up 
every passage and brambles were growing over the 
whole. Moreover, the space where this forest had 
stood was cut up in every direction by gullies and 
ravines, all containing more or less fallen timber. 
Under favorable circumstances, that is with a good 
supply of ammunition and provisions, and a garrison 
of 20,000 men, Port Hudson could have resisted any 
force that could have been brought against it. 

The task of taking this stronghold fell to the lot of 
the Army of the Gulf, consisting mainly of the 19th 
Army Corps, to which the 48th M. V. M. was at- 
tached. 

Two o'clock in the morning of Jan. 30, 1863. The 
old ship Constellation, bearing the 48th Regiment, is 
lying off the southwest pass of the Mississippi River 
and is throwing up rockets as a signal for a pilot. 
Presently a tug comes steaming out from the river and 
as daylight is breaking we leave the muddy waters of 
the gulf behind us, not, however, without the assistance 
of a second powerful tug to take us over the bar, and 
enter the still muddier waters of the Mississippi. For 
some miles the river presents no objects of interest. 
Low marshy shores covered with coarse sedges, fit 
haunts for alligators and other venomous reptiles — in 
all about as uninviting a place as can well be imagined. 
Towards noon, we reach the famous Forts Jackson and 
St. Philip, one of which gives us a salute as we pass. 

They were occupied at this time by the 20th Massa- 



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chusetts Eegiment who cheered us lustily as we passed. 
At 9 o'clock A. M., January 31, arrived at quarantine 
where the ship was boarded by the health officer, who 
discovered no reason to detain us, although so very 
recently having been scourged by the ship fever, and he 
declared us "all right" and gave us a clean bill. 

The only evidence of the desperate fight of the year 
before when Farragut run the gauntlet of these forts 
are the remnants of several rebel gunboats which were 
destroyed during the fight and driven as high as possi- 
ble on the blanks of the river, and the Union sloop-of- 
war Varuna, which lay on the bottom of this river with 
only the tops of her masts out of water. After passing 
the forts, as we approach New Orleans the country be- 
comes somewhat more interesting. We pass some fine 
plantations with stately mansions, large sugar houses 
and long rows of cabins, the habitations of the blacks. 
Much of the way we run close to the bank and as we 
turn bend after bend in the river we are tantalized by 
the sight of orange groves laden with the luscious fruit 
— so near and yet so far. We see very few white men. 
Most of them have doubtless gone into the rebel army. 
Now and then a planter standing on the bank gazes at 
us sullenly as we pass. It seemed evident that they 
were not over-pleased to see us. Our only welcome was 
from the negroes. Their shouts from the levee, accom- 
panied by laughter and frantic gesticulations, bespoke 
their joy. One white man, bolder than his fellows, 
shouted the inquiry: "What regiment is that?" and be- 
ing informed he imparted the cheerful information 
that we had come all the way from Massachusetts to 
find our graves — a prophecy which proved true of 
many a boy on board that ship. 



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February 1, Sunday, at 3 A. M., we reached New 
Orleans and anchored opposite the central part of the 
city, where we remained during the next day. 
Looking at New Orleans at that time, it was hard 
to realize that just previous to the opening of 
the war it had the largest export trade of any city 
in the world. Its stores closed, its fine business 
blocks deserted, its levee which had once groaned 
•with the burden of a great commerce empty and deso- 
late, the great metropolis of the Southwest lying under 
the guns of our ships of war was a mute but vivid wit- 
ness of the folly of rebellion. 

Leaving New Orleans on the 3rd at 11.45 A, M. we 
proceeded up the river. Above New Orleans the deso- 
lation became more marked. War had written his 
autograph over the whole face of the country. Crops 
of sugar cane which should have yielded thousands of 
pounds of sugar were still standing in February, when 
they should have been gathered months before. No 
hope of saving them, for the frost had been at work 
upon them. Moreover, the planter's negroes had left 
him, his horses had been stolen, his mules and teams 
confiscated by the Government. Defiant amid the gen- 
eral wreck, the planters were said to be bitterly cursing 
President Lincoln and praying for the destruction of 
the Union armies. 

The village of Donaldson, the first place of impor- 
tance above New Orleans, presented a sorry sight. Its 
inhabitants had had the bad habit of firing on our 
weaker steamers as they passed up and down the river. 
Farragut bore the outrage until forbearance ceased to 
be a virtue, and then assured the people that if the out- 
rage were again repeated he would shell the town. It 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 23 

was again committed and Farragut, true to his word, 
bombarded the place until only about half of the orig- 
inal town was left. 

Approaching Baton Eouge, 125 miles above New 
Orleans, on the morning of the 4th, the first thing that 
attracted our attention was the ruined Capitol of the 
State, grim and ghastly in the morning light. This 
fine building was fired when our forces took possession 
of the town, by whom will never be known. The rebels 
charged the Unionists with doing the deed when they 
entered the place, and the Unionists as stoutly asserted 
that it was the last act of the rebels before leaving. 
The magnificent library, fine furniture and works of 
art were all destroyed. Only Powers' statue of Wash- 
ington, the work of JSTorthern genius, was rescued from 
the flames. 

Our steamer drew up to the levee at Baton Kouge 
just as the sweet notes of the reveille were sounding 
from camp to camp, bugles echoing bugles, fifes war- 
bling, drums beating, while here and there from a dis- 
tant camp came the rich swell of a full band. 

It was with the greatest delight that we disembarked, 
for we had already learned what it was to suffer. Con- 
fined for six weeks on an old hulk for which the Gov- 
ernment was paying more every week than the ship 
was worth, we had not escaped the ravages of disease. 
The transport on which we had made the trip from 
New York had formerly been an emigrant ship. The 
seeds of disease were lurking in her timbers. While 
we were on the Atlantic a fatal disease — a spotted 
fever — broke out, and in a few days several of our boys 
had fallen victims and were consigned to a watery 
grave. 



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And now once again on terra firma our spirits rose 
accordingly, and there was a general feeling of hopeful- 
ness and cheer in our ranks as we marched over the 
bluff to a plain about two miles from the village, where 
we pitched our tents on a spot which was to be our 
home for several weeks. Our camping ground had once 
been occupied by the rebels for the same purpos^e. It 
was a part of the field on which the battle of the pre- 
vious year had been fought. The trees in the vicinity 
still showed the effects of the shot and fragments of 
shell, the bones of animals and soldiers' graves showed 
that our troops had gained no bloodless victory. 

Picket duty, guard duty, and the routine of drill was 
our life for several weeks. The battlefield with its 
terrors had thus far kept aloof but we were brought 
face to face with a chapter of army life hardly less sad. 

Though Baton Eouge and the country northward is 
much more healthful than the fever level below, still 
there is no place in all that region where one can lead 
the exposed life of a soldier with impunity. Many of 
our most rugged men yielded to the fatal miasm with 
which the night air is laden, and those who had never 
known a day's sickness in their lives went daily at the 
surgeon's call to get their dose of quinine. Death came 
and mustered out many. Funerals were of daily occur- 
rence and sometimes it seemed of almost hourly oc- 
currence. The notes of the dead march, the sad, sad 
wailing of the fife, the mournful throb of the muffled 
drum, the march with downcast eyes and arms reversed, 
the parting volley aliove the grave, and then the return 
march, quick time, arms at the right shoulder, fifes 
warbling like birds in springtime, and drums beating 
merrily — these sights and sounds were far too common. 



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Our sojourn at Baton Rouge was a period of waiting 
expectancy. We were learning that to wait is one of 
the chief duties of a soldier as it is indeed one of the 
the most irksome. 

On February 5 the regiment received a few old "Sib- 
ley" tents, a lot which had been left behind by some 
departing regiment. They were musty old things, but 
some of the boys went into them until our new ones, 
which we are entitled to, should arrive. Today the 
48th was brigaded with the 116th New York, tlie 21st 
Maine and the 49th Massachusetts, constituting the 
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, with 
Maj.-Gen. C. C. Augur— a regular army officer— in 
command of the Division; Col. E. P. Chapin of the 
116th New York (Senior Colonel) in command of the 
Brigade, and Maj.-Gen. N. P. Banks in command of 
the Department, which was designated as the "Depart- 
ment of the Gulf," and on February 6 muskets and 
ammunition were dealt out and we then for the first 
time considered ourselves full-fledged soldiers of 
"Uncle Sam." 

On March 11 there was a grand review of the troops 
then at Baton Rouge. The sight of 20,000 well-drilled 
troops, infantry, cavalry, and artillery is no ordinary 
spectacle. Banks on his coal-black stallion with his 
Division and Brigade Commanders made a distinguished 
appearance, but the writer recalls that his interest cen- 
tered chiefly in Farragut who with the Captains of the 
fleet had been invited to witness the parade. 

At length on March 12 at 9 P. M. an order came to 
have twenty-four hours cooked rations and forty 
rounds of ammunition and be ready to march 



26 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

at a moment's notice. At daybreak the next morn- 
ing we marched to the levee at Baton Eouge where we 
embarked on board a steamer and sailed slowly up the 
Tiver. Another regiment accompanied us and two com- 
panies of cavalry. We had started on a reconnaiipance. 
We were convoyed by the famous gunboat Essex which 
kept a half a mile ahead of us and occasionally threw a 
shell into the woods along the shore. We disembarked 
a few miles below Port Hudson under cover of th^ guns 
of the Essex. The road leading to the bluff a di^'tance 
of a quarter of a mile from the river, swollen by the 
spring freshets, was entirely under water, in some places 
reaching nearly to the waists of the shorter men. 
Wading through this the order of march was formed 
upon the bluif. The cavalry went ahead, filling the 
road and stretching out over the fields on either side. 
We approached within a few miles of the Confederate 
works and drove in their pickets who left their posts 
60 rapidly as to leave their cooking utensils lying near 
the smouldering embers of the fire where they had 
cooked their morning meal. Presently we came upon a 
company of guerillas who fled to the woods, all but one 
young fellow who was captured. At about noon, hot, 
tired and thirsty, we halted for a brief rest at a planta- 
tion some sixteen miles from Baton Rouge and T doubt 
if at any time or place during the great conflict the 
confiscation law was more vigorously and thoroughly 
enforced. Within a few minutes after our arrival the 
feathered inhabitants of the plantation had nothing 
further to say. Our march from this place to Baton 
Rouge was a rapid one. We were within a short dis- 
tance of a comparatively large and powerful army of 
the enemy and it was quite within the bounds of pos- 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 27 

gibility that a force might be sent out to fall upon us 
before we could reach our camp. But the reconnais- 
sance on the whole was a success. The road was clear 
of rebels and about five miles from Baton Rouge where 
the Montecino Bayou crosses the road we met the ' 
division of General Curvier Grover fresh from their 
camp at Baton Rouge. No one who witnessed those 
regiments of infantry and cavalry and the fine batteries 
accompanying them as they crossed the pontoon bridge 
and came springing up the hillside, and with their gun- 
barrels glistening in the rays of the setting sun disap- 
peared from view on the winding road ahead will ever 
lose the impression there gained. 

We reached our camp at Baton Rouge at about 
9 o'clock. Most of us were footsore and all were 
weary, and creeping into our tents we were just 
settling down to a good night's rest when down 
from headquarters came an order to march at 3 
the next morning. So in the early morning we fell 
in each heavily laden with knapsack, a full supply of 
cartridges and two days' rations, and started on the road 
over which we had come the previous day. The morn- 
ing was cool, the road in good order, trees just budding 
out and festooned with vines and moss. On the whole 
we enjoyed the scenery of the Southern forest road and 
the fresh morning air. Neither the heavy burdens nor 
the blistered feet caused by yesterday's weary march 
could wholly repress our enthusiasm, ignorant as we 
were of campaign life and eager for a change. But as 
we got out into the open country and old Sol rising 
higher and higher got in his work upon us our burdens 
seemed heavier and heavier every moment and every 
step was an agony. With rout step and arras at will, on, 



28 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Begiment 

ou we plodded through clouds of dust. No wonder that 
some of the boys sank by the side of the road exhausted, 
only to come up late in the evening after the regiment 
liad bivouacked. But the longest day and the weariest 
march must have an end and as the shades of night 
were falling we halted at a corn field where, after a 
hasty meal, we bivouacked for the night. With knap- 
sacks for pillows and the starry heavens for canopy we 
lay along the ridges of the corn field and tired Nature's 
sweet restorer, balmy sleep, soon came to our relief. 

The writer remembers being hastily awakened after a 
few hours sleep by the comrade by his side who said, 
"Look up over the trees!" and there we could easily 
trace the course of the shells from Farragut's mortar 
boats and could hear their dull, explosive thud as they 
fell inside the works at Port Hudson. But even that 
display of fireworks interested us but for a moment. 
Soon we were again sleeping soundly unconscious of the 
tumult on the river. Shortly after midnight the cry, 
"fall in" passed along the lines and slinging knapsacks 
and shouldering rifles we passed out of the field past 
the long, long lines of sleeping men and were again 
on the march, this time away from Port Hudson. 
What this movement meant we could not comprehend. 
Had disaster befallen the fleet or our troops at the 
front ? Were we beginning the retreat ? All was doubt 
and uncertainty. We stumbled along in the thick dark- 
ness through the dense woods, the silence of which was 
broken only by an occasional heavy booming sound from 
the river. The black darkness of the night grew lieavier 
and heavier. It was at that darkest hour just before 
the dawn when all at once the entire heavens were 
aglow. An instant flash of lights as bright as the 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 29 

briglitest noonday penetrated the inmost recesses of the 
forest and for a moment sharply outlined every soldier's 
form — then came a sound that shook the very earth, 
that thundered and reverberated along the entire 
horizon — then all was still and dark. "What is it?" 
was the question on every lip. Not until morning had 
fully dawned did we learn that it was the dying cry of 
the old warship Mississippi as she sank to her rest 
beneath the waters of the river whence she had received 
her name. 

The events of that memorable night form one 
of the most stirring chapters of the history of the 
war. Farragut having learned of our loss of the 
steamer Queen of the West between Vicksburg and Port 
Hudson determined to run past the batteries at the 
latter place and recover command of the river above. 
So in his stout flagship, the Hartford, lashed side by 
side with the Albatross he led the perilous adventure 
arriving abreast of the rebel works at about midnight. 
The rebels were on the watch and immediately the flames 
of a vast bonfire in front of the heaviest batteries 
lighting up the entire breadth of the river shot up into 
the sky and the next instant the earth trembled to the 
roar of all the rebel batteries, whereupon our mortar 
boats below began firing thirteen-inch shell, and four 
frigates and five gunboats moved up into the fight. As 
our ships came past within pistol shot of the batteries 
grape and canister swept their decks with murderous 
discharges, the crescent shape of the river enabling them 
to rake each vessel as it approached and again as it 
receded. By 1 o'clock the fight was virtually over, 
the Hartford and the Albatross having passed while 
most of their consorts had failed and dropped down 



30 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

to their anchorage below, when a fresh blaze told of a 
heavy loss. The Mississippi had run aground directly 
abreast of the heaviest and most central battery where 
her helpless plight was soon discovered and she at once 
became a target for them all. Here Capt. Melancthon 
Smith fought her nearly half an hour until she was 
completely riddled, when he ordered her set on fire and 
abandoned, and she was burning ashore until she was so 
lightened that she floated, when she drifted down the 
river a blazing ruin, exploding several miles below 
when the fire had reached her magazine. 

The morning after this memorable night found the 
48th guarding a bridge on a road parallel to the main 
road from Baton Eouge to Port Hudson. We had 
fuel prepared ready in an emergency to burn the bridge 
as it was feared the enemy's cavalry might attempt to 
make a dash on the flank of our army. No cavalry 
appeared, however, and we were soon withdrawn and 
went into camp on the banks of the Montecino Bayou. 
And now the troops came pouring back from Port 
Hudson. They had advanced to the outer works, fired 
a few shots and retired. Not realizing that the move- 
ment was but a feint intended to deceive the enemy in 
the hope that they might withdraw some of their heavy 
guns from the bluff and thus make easier the passage of 
the fleet. Bank's soldiers showered curses on him and his 
tactics. They grew calmer when he issued a proclama- 
tion saying that the object of the expedition had been 
successfully accomplished. A week later all the troops 
were withdrawn to Baton Rouge, Banks with the larger 
part of the army loft for an expedition in Western 
Louisiana and our Division was left to garrison Baton 
Eouge. We took up again the daily routine of picket 
duty, guard duty, and drill, varied occasionally by a 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 31 

night alarm from the picket line when we would hastily 
fall in in the darkness and prepare to meet an enemy 
that did not come. Such was our life for two months. 
Its monotony was broken on the 2d of May when Grier- 
son with his troopers dusty, haggard and wayworn, 
rode into Baton Eouge. The story of their coming and 
of their incredible adventures flew like wild fire through 
the camps and the excitement was at a high pitch. 
Nothing like it had been known before in the war. 
Seventeen hundred men had ridden through the entire 
length of the State of Mississippi from the northeast to 
the southwest corner, encountering every conceivable 
danger and hardship. Thousands of Confederates had 
been trying to find and intercept them. But with 
matchless skill Grierson had escaped them by circuits, 
outwitted them by ruses, and attacked and routed them' 
with far inferior numbers. In this raid of 600 miles 
through a country swarming with foes they had cut 
two railroads, burned nine bridges, destroyed two loco- 
motives and nearly 200 cars, broken up three rebel 
duty, guard duty, and drill, varied occasionally by a 
camps, destroyed more than $4,000,000 worth of 
Confederate government property, captured and parolled 
1,000 prisoners and brought in with them 1,200 cap- 
tured horses. Hundreds of dark-hued patriots accom- 
panied them into Baton Rouge mounted on mules and 
horses they had borrowed from their late masters. 
Some idea of the pluck and endurance of the 
Westerners may be obtained from the fact that 
during the twenty-eight hours preceding their arrival 
at Baton Rouge they had marched more than sixty 
miles, had four fights and crossed the Comite Ri>rer 
where it was necessary to swim their horses. 



32 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

As the month of May wore away boat load after boat 
load of troops arrived at Baton Rouge and it soon 
became evident that the long-looked for movement 
against Port Hudson was at hand. The 48th received 
marching orders on the 11th and on the 18th was 
again on the familiar road to Port Hudson, starting on 
an expedition from which many in that column were 
never to return. 

That night we camped sixteen miles from Baton 
Rouge where we remained until the 21st, on which day 
we received our baptism of fire. The regiment got into 
line at an early hour and took up line of march for 
Port Hudson. We had not moved a mile before the 
booming of guns ahead announced that our advance had 
found the enemy and in all probability we would soon 
be engaged. 

On arriving at the intersection of the Bayou Sara 
and Port Hudson roads near the "Plains Store," so 
called, located at that point, the advance was checked 
by shots from a rebel battery planted at the "store." 
Col. Dudley's Brigade was in the advance and received 
the first shock; some of his troops skirmished in front 
while others made a flank movement, and the rebels 
were routed after quite a sharp engagement. 

Lieut. Tucker of the Massachusetts 49th, acting on 
Col. Chapin's staff, lost a leg by cannon shot. After the 
battle was supposed to be over, and the rebels had pre- 
cipitately retired, the Division (excepting the 48th) 
made preparations to bivouac in the field at the right 
and left of the Bayou Sara road near the "Plains 
Store." A section of the 5th U. S. Regular Battery 
was sent a short distance up the Port Hudson road and 
the 48th Massachusetts was ordered to its support. 




CITADEL PORT HUDSON, LA., 

Previous to Assault of June 14, 1863. 




CITADEL PORT HUDSON, LA.. 
After Assault of .Tune 14, 18(53. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment :V4 

Col. Stone was informed that the Illinois cavalry were 
picketing on his front and right, and the 174th New 
York infantry on his left, and he was cautioned very 
strictly to be careful and not shoot those pickets by 
mistake. 

The Staff Officer who conducted the 48th to its 
position, led them (and also the battery), entirely out- 
side the pickets, so that unknown to Col, Stone the 48th 
was in a very exposed position, with neither front nor 
flanks protected. Cos. H and K were detached from the 
right wing and sent to the rear to guard the baggage 
train, leaving only three companies, B, E and D, in that 
wing; these three companies of the right wing, under 
Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, filed into the woods on the right 
hand side of the road ; and the left wing, Cos. F, G, 1, 
A and C, with Col. Stone, into the woods on the left- 
hand side of the road, and the battery was placed in the 
road between the two wings which were entirely sep- 
arated from each other. Scarcely liad the regiment 
taken its position when the rebels commenced shelling 
us and our battery smartly returned their fire. While 
this was transpiring a force of rebel infantry passed 
around the left flank, and to the rear of the left wing, 
and as soon as the artillery fire ceased, fell upon them 
while totally unprepared. The suddenness of the at- 
tack threw them into confusion and they gave way and 
retreated to the rear. The advance of the rebels was 
met by a countercharge of the 116th New York and 
the rebels were routed. 

A portion of the rebel forces crossed the road and 
came upon the left flank and rear of the right wing. 
Lieut.-Col. O'Brien attempted to change front by 
throwing back his left, but a portion of the men became 



34 Forty-eigJdh Massachusetts Regiment 

confused, and Col. O'Brien ordered a retreat. This 
order was not heard by Capt. Stanwood. Seeing some 
of his men about to fall back in disorder he ordered 
them to stand fast, which they did, and with a portion 
of Cos. E and D fell back about 100 yards and took a 
new position, rallying on the colors. 

General Augur was at the rear and near the Plains 
Store and witnessed the occurrence : The battery guns 
went to the rear before the right wing left its position. 
Col. Stone lost both his horses, captured. At night Co. 
B went on picket. 

The 48th lost two killed, several wounded and pris- 
oners in the fight today. 

May 22. Co. B was relieved from picket by Co. F. 
Calvin A. Farrington of Co. B was missing at roll call, 
having been taken prisoner. Lieut.-Col. O'Brien and 
Captain Stanwood were requested to come to Maj.-Gen. 
Augur's headquarters, which they did, and were com- 
plimented very highly for the part sustained by the right 
wing in yesterday's battle; and also some of the ofTicers 
and men of the left wing who rallied on the colors. 
The numbers in the right wing were so few that the 
General supposed at the time that there was but one 
company. He said the regiment did as well as any but 
veteran troops would do under the circumstances; that 
they had by mistake been placed in the wrong position 
and were very badly posted on either side of the road. 
He kindly criticised Lieut.-Col. O'Brien and told him 
that he made a great mistake by trying to make a wheel 
to the rear in the face of an aggressive enemy, his 
men being under fire for the first time; none but sea- 
soned troops could do that safely. He said the Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel should have ordered the right of his 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 35 

command forward and met the enemy, and taken the 
aggressive, and he had confidence, from what he wit- 
nessed of their steadiness, that the men would have sup- 
ported him. He then complimented the men for cool- 
ness under fire and said no doubt the regiment would feel 
chagrined at the outcome of their first battle, but no 
doubt an early opportunity would be given them to 
retrieve themselves. He also said that if the regiment 
should be called upon for volunteers for an assaulting 
party, in a future assault (which he thought would be 
the case very soon) he directed Captain Stanwood of 
Co. B and his company not to feel as if called upon, but 
to remain with the main body of the regiment, that 
he would not be expected to volunteer in any forlorn 
hope or assaulting party. His 1st Lieut. (Rollins) 
detailed to Col. Chapin's staff. Lieut. Merrill was 
acting Quartermaster of the regiment for some con- 
siderable time. 

May 23. Alarm in the night — long roll beaten — 
regiment turned out under arms, but the alarm proved 
to be false. 48th ordered far down to the rear of the 
1st Battery fight on the Bayou Sara road. 

Co. E's men proved themselves good foragers, bring- 
ing in quantities of poultry and pigs. 

May 24. Regiment ordered to march to the front 
with one day's rations at 6 o'clock A. M. Co. B 
was detached and sent forward skirmishing into a 
narrow strip of woods; the mud and water were very 
deep and almost impenetrable. They advanced, how- 
ever, with great difficulty through the woods to within 
about 300 yards of the rebel works and there remained 
through the day, lying in the edge of the woods, and 
witnessed the artillery battle between the opposing bat- 



36 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

teries in our immediate front till nearly dark when 
they were relieved by the Massachusetts 49th. 

May 25. There was a smart fight near night upon 
our right in Gen. Grovei'^s Division and some rebs 
attempted to cut their way out but failed and were taken 
prisoners. The regiment ordered to sleep on their 
arms tonight. 

May 26. One false alarm during the night. Iteg- 
iment got into line promptly, but as promptly dismissed. 
Orders received from headquarters for volunteers for a 
"Forlorn Hope" to charge in advance of the brigade 
line, and storm the enemy's works tomorrow morning. 

There were more than the required number came 
forward from the brigade (the call was for 200 men 
from the brigade) and ninety-two men were accepted 
from the 48th Massachusetts. The following are the 
names of those accepted from the 48th: Lieut.-Col. 
O'Brien; Co. A, Capt. Woodward, Lieut. Morrison, 
Privates E. C. Varina, N. F. Peabody, Isaac F. Porter, 
Henry M. Cross; Co. C, Lieut. Emery; Co. D, Private 
J. F. Kinsman; Co. E, Privates Geo. Wagner, John 
Lewis, H. Mansfield, Henry Krone, J. F. Stoddard ; Co. 
F, Lieut. Noyes, Privates Austin Smith, George Bocock, 
P. Noonan, A. Mullins, John McDougal, J. P. Blanch- 
ard, D. C. Morrill, E. J. Oakes; Co. G, Capt. Schoff; 
Co. H, Capt. Rogers, Lieut. Frawley, Lieut. McGinnoss, 
Sergts. Thomas McLaughlin, John W. Leyes, Eichard 
Ward, Corporals Timothy LehifEe, Robert Leach, James 
Gildee, Daniel Desmond, Privates Michael Farley, Mor- 
rissey A. Hearn, Joseph Burgess, John Boyle. John 
Bradley, Michael Bates, Patrick Cullins, Patrick Dumey, 
Wm. Finnigan, James Gilogby, Matthew R. Gleason, 
John Kclley, James Leach, Dennis Leon, Dennis 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 37 

Noonan, James Walsley, Thomas Scully, Peter Mc- 
Cauley, Patrick Manus, William A. Murphy, Patrick 
Murray, James O'Connell, Wm, Powers, James Quigley, 
Patrick Eiley, James Spear, Edward Slyne, William 
Tagget, Hugh Willey; Co. I, Capt. Smith, Lieut. 
Ricker, Lieut. Bassett; Co. K, Lieut. Harding, Privates 
Daniel Crowley, Ed, Ryan, J. Gallagher, James Rand, 
J. Keenan. 

May 27. Before the men had had their breakfast 
orders were received to assault the enemy's works. 
Immediately we advanced quietly to the extreme edge 
of the woods where we laid on our arms till about 3 
o'clock in the afternoon, the "Forlorn Hope" under 
command of Lieut.-Col. O'Brien in the advance. At 
that hour and before the main line had fairly formed 
for the assault we received a volley from the enemy's 
guns and at the same time the zip of the rebel bullets 
was getting unpleasantly frequent. General Augur, 
who stood very near, seeing the men dodge their heads 
at the disagreeable sound said, "No use boys to dodge 
them after you hear them," a fact we soon learned by 
experience. The "Forlorn Hope" had commenced the 
charge, O'Brien saying, "Come boys ! pick up your 
bundles and follow me," and General Augur gave 
the command, "Forward the Brigade," and the 
whole brigade advanced into the "slashings." The 
whole forest of large trees and small had been 
felled and the limbs lopped off and left upon the 
ground, which was entirely covered with the stumps, 
logs and brush; and through this almost impenetrable 
Cheveux de Frise, the men attempted to charge, and 
over which a perfect storm of shell, cannister and rifle 
bullets flew like hail; no formation could be maintained 



38 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

over such grounds and in a few moments it was every 
one for himself. The 'Torlorn Hope" and the main 
line became inextricably mixed, and advanced together. 
charged nearly up to the rebel works, but the fire was 
60 severe that human endurance was not equal to the 
task set for us, and the men were compelled to drop 
behind stumps and logs, and take advantage of any 
shelter to be found, and acted as sharpshooters, hoping 
that reinforcements might be sent up and continue the 
assault. The 2d Louisiana from Dudley's brigade 
came up the road later, but too late to be of any serv- 
ice, and the assault was abandoned, and the men 
dropped back individually to their old line as best they 
could. Col. Chapin, llGth New York, commanding the 
brigade, Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, 48th ]\Iassachusetts, com- 
manding the "Forlorn Hope," and many others were 
killed ; Capt. Rogers, Co. H, Capt. Smith, Co. I, Lieuts. 
Morrison, Frawley, Maginnis, Rieker, Bassett and Hard- 
ing, and many others wounded, and a large number of 
the rank and file of the regiment were killed or more 
or less seriously wounded ; Lieut. Rieker suffered the 
amputation of his leg. As we came back from the 
front, we had our first sight of the dreadful effects of 
a battle and burial of the dead in one line, about twenty 
dead bodies lying at the side of the road, and the long 
trench all ready to receive them. Poor fellows, with 
no coffin and no shroud but the blue uniform in which 
they had shed their blood for the flag they loved. 

May 28. Ambulances and stretchers under flags of 
truce have been going all night, bringing in the bodies 
of the dead and wounded. Col. Chapin's body has been 
Bent to New Orleans. Lieut.-Col, O'Brien's body has 
just been found in the most advanced line. When bin 



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clothes were opened the bullet which penetrated hia 
body fell out, it having passed entirely through him 
and flattened up against a steel vest which he wore into 
the battle. He recklessly exposed himself and lost his 
life by so doing, seeking to retrieve himself from Gen. 
Augur's kindly criticism of his mistake of the 21st at 
Plains Store. 

May 29. The regiment laid on their arms all night 
in expectation of an attack by the garrison, but the 
night passed away and all has been quiet in camp to- 
day. Several heavy thunder showers in the afternoon. 
Orders received to fall in with all our traps and go to 
the rear; mud very deep and the march tedious. 

The 2d Louisiana has been attached to our brigade 
and Col. Charles J. Paine of that regiment, being 
senior Colonel, takes command of the brigade. He is 
a Massachusetts man and is said to be a fine officer. 

May 30. Cannonading going on all the night and 
day from the batteries and from the fleet. Marched 
back to our old camp in front. 

June 1. A Lieutenant of sharpshooters wounded 
during the early morning. Gen. Banks was much cha- 
grined at the failure of the first assault. Regiment 
marched back to the rear after dark to support bat- 
teries. Laid in cornfield with cornstalks for bedding 
and pillow. 

June 2. Regiment got into line at 4 o'clock and 
marched back to old camp ground. Co. E detailed to 
go to the rear to guard the baggage train to relieve 
Co. G. 

June 3. Smart cannonading all night. Gen. Banks 
and Admiral Farragut give the rebs no peace day or 
night. 



40 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

June 4. Regiment marched back to the old camp 
in front. Four men of Co. B reported from Baton 
Rouge. 

June 5. Officers ordered to report at Brigade Head- 
quarters to confer about Lieutenant-Colonelcy. The 
laws of Massachusetts state explicitly that the vacancy 
shall be filled by the votes of the line officers of the 
regiment. 

June 6. Rumored preparations for another assault. 
Col. Stone sent for Capt. Stanwood and requested him 
to act as Lieutenant-Colonel till the vacancy could be 
legally filled, saying that an election would soon be 
ordered. 

June 7. False alarm in the night. Man with night- 
mare disturbed camp by upsetting a stack of guns and 
bringing out the whole regiment. Inspection at 9 
o'clock A. M. 

June 8. Harrison W. Dearborn, Co. B, died at 
Baton Rouge. Immense lots of cotton bales being 
hauled to the front for breastworks. 

June 9. Smart firing during the night. Large fire 
to be seen in Port Hudson. 

June 10. Some heavy cannonading during the 
night. Chaplain came up from Baton Rouge with mail 
today. Quartermaster came up from Baton Rouge with 
new teams. 

June 11. Many of the men are suffering badly from 
rheumatism, malaria and kindred ailments, acquired 
from lying in the rifle pits, which are much of the time 
half full of water. Nothing more has been said re- 
garding an election of Lieutenant-Colonel, and tliere ia 
much speculation among the officers and men as to the 
reason. 



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June 12. An election for Lieutenant-Colonel was 
ordered by Col. Stone and held today and Capt. Stan- 
wood was unanimously chosen. 

June 13. The regiment received orders at 10 o'clock 
A. M. to report to Gen. Augur's headquarters at once. 
On reporting to Gen. Augur we were ordered to march 
away to the right to report to Gen. Arnold, chief of 
artillery. Eeported at about 11 o'clock after a very 
quick march, in which many of the men suffered terri- 
bly, it being in the very heat of the day and with but 
one halt on the road; we must have marched at least 
seven or eight miles. Stacked arms and took entrench- 
ing tools — which in plain English means picks and 
shovels and axes. Some of the companies were de- 
tailed to clear out a big ravine which led up in the 
direction of the rebel breastworks and just in the rear 
of where it was intended to plant a battery, while 
others were busied in throwing up the breastworks, 
carrying up ammunition and other duties. Worked 
till dark and without supper; made preparations to 
bivouac, when we were ordered to take up our march 
again to our old camp at the rear near the Plains 
Store, whence we had started in the morning. Arrived 
in camp late in the evening, and after enjoying ( ?) 
coffee and hardtack laid our tired bones on the ground 
with the hope of gaining some rest ; but our hopes were 
blasted. We had got scarcely settled to rest when the 
following order was received directly from Gen. Banks* 
headquarters : 

"Headquarters, Department of the Gulf. 
"Before Port Hudson, June 13, 18G3, 8.45 P. M. 
'TVIaj.-Gen. Augur will order the 48th Massachusetts, 
Col. Stone, to proceed at once to the headquarters of 



42 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

the 2d Division and report for temporary duty to Brig.- 
Gen. William Dwight, commanding the Division. A 
general assault upon the works of the enemy at Port 
Hudson will be made tomorrow morning, 14th instant." 

The regiment got into line, being nearly 500 strong 
(or weak), but so used up that many fell out during 
the march through the woods, which occupied nearly 
all the night — the guide sent with us losing the way — 
and it was nearly morning when Col. Stone reported to 
Gen. Dwight. It was intended that we should occupy 
the extreme left on the river bank and make our charge 
at that point; but after reconnoitering the ground we 
were moved further to the right, to near the Mount 
Pleasant road, and bivouaced at the side of the road. 

June 14. A dense fog prevailing and terribly hot. 
Col. Stone reported to Gen. Dwight at a very early 
hour, before light, with 175 men and four Captains 
present for duty, the rest of the men having become 
exhausted by the work of yesterday and the night 
march through the woods, having started from Plains 
Store yesterday morning with nearly 500 men. 

A tremendous artillery fire for an hour commenced 
at about 3 o'clock, both from land forces and the fleet. 
The men present in the regiment were consolidated into, 
four companies, and Capt. Todd volunteered to take 
command of the right company, consisting of rem- 
nants of Cos. B and E. 

The bombardment continued fiercely for an hour, 
during wbich time the colunms were being formed for 
the assault in the rear of a piece of woods; the forma- 
tion was in column by companies and Capt. Todd led 
the advance. We in the 48ih could see the effect of the 
rebel fire on the brigade in advance of us, as it turned 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 43 

the corner of the woods into the Mount Pleasant road. 
Quickly the order came down to "Forward the Brigade'* 
(we were attached for the day to the brigade com- 
manded by Col. Benedict). When we came out from 
the shelter of the woods the fire of the enemy was ter- 
rible, but the column moved forward firmly; the rebel 
line of breastworks was clearly defined before us, with 
the "Citadel" frowning in the front. As we advanced 
the march from quick time soon became double quick, 
and finally a mad rush, passing over dead and wounded 
in the road. The air fairly hissed with bullets and 
shell, the groans of the wounded mingled with the 
cheers and yells of the charging troops, the shouts of 
the officers and also their imprecations as some poor 
fellows, losing their presence of mind, would try to 
dodge the flying missiles as they passed to bury them- 
eelves with a sickening "thud" in some other doomed 
comrade's body; it seemed as if pandemonium was let 
loose, and when we overtook and passed over the pros- 
trate bodies of the red clothed fascine bearers, who had 
started in advance of the main column and who, un- 
able to face the leaden storm, had dropped their bur- 
dens and taken shelter behind them, they were greeted 
with cries of derision, which quickly changed to cries 
of dismay when we came into the vortex and saw the 
ground swept as it were by a whirlwind, and every man 
sought shelter in ravines, behind stumps, logs and any 
object which could afford shelter. 

This ended Gen. Dwight's movement. But it had 
advanced our lines so that we held possession of a rough 
hill which commanded the "Citadel," which had been 
the objective point of our assault, and which was the 
most formidable point in the rebel works. The men 



44 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

held themselves well and showed that former experi- 
ences had had a good effect. Capt. Todd was seriously 
wounded in the mouth; Adjt. Ogden was slightlj 
wounded ; Darius Nelson of Co. B was killed and others 
hoth killed and wounded. The Lieutenant-Colonel was 
thrown down by the explosion of a shell, which happily 
did not wound him, but his right leg was serious par- 
alyzed and he laid on the field all day exposed to the 
pitiless fire of the rebel sharpshooters and the scarcely 
less endurable rays of the burning Louisiana sun, until 
night came and the Ambulance Corps and brought re- 
lief. The scenes on the field were heart-rending, and 
the sufferings of the wounded appealed so strongly to 
the sympathy of their more fortunate comrades that 
lives were, lost and others risked attempting to succor 
these unfortunate men. 

The movement was much criticized by some of the 
officers, especially the cannonade which preceded the 
assauU,, as it is said that by it the rebs were apprised 
that an assault was to be made and they were prepared 
to repel it, and the day which had opened so auspi- 
ciously ended in gloom. Details of stretcher-bearers 
plying their melancholy duty carried the wounded to 
the hospitals, and the dead swiftly to the long trenches. 

June 15. Eegiment was relieved from support of 
battery and marched leisurely back to our old camp 
near the front center. The men were almost entirely 
exhausted, but it was impossible to excuse them from, 
duty, as all are in the same condition. 

June 16. Ecceived orders during the day calling for 
volunteers for another storming party of 1000 men. 

June 17. Passed the niglit in the rifle pits. There 
was a very heavy rain early in the morning, filling the 



B'orty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 45 

pits and making the situation very disagreeable. Order 
in regard to detail of one oflBcer and twenty-five men 
for storming party countermanded, as more than the 
required number had volunteered. 

June 18. Eegiment supporting an Indiana battery, 
at the front, early in the morning having moved in to 
the rifle pits. 

June 20. Sharpshooters are making things lively. 
There are rumors floating through the camps that 
Vicksburg has fallen. Regiment ordered to move into 
the rifle pits at dark. 

June 21. Eegiment occupied the rifle pits last night. 
The 2d Vermont Battery kept up a kind of intermittent 
firing. Eegiment relieved at night and returned to the 
rear, bivouacking in the woods. 

June 22. Election held in Co. B for vacant offices. 
Lieut. Merrill was elected Captain, receiving 16 votes 
to 15 for Lieut. Rollins; 1st Sergt. James S. Walsh 
was elected Second Lieutenant. 

June 23. There has been considerable discussion of 
the vexing question of termination of service. There 
are very few officers left with the regiment, and the 
duty is very hard in consequence. 

June 24. Lieut. Maginnis (who was wounded in 
the assault of the 27th of May) died of his wounds 
today. 

June 26. Orders received to take the regiment to 
the rear and bivouac near Brigade Headquarters, and 
just at night ordered to relieve the 2d Louisiana in the 
advance rifle pits. 

June 27. Col. Stone on the sick list. After being 
relieved from the rifle pits ordered to go to the left and 



46 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

support the 49th Massachusetts and 21st Maine, which 
we did, bivouacking at 11 o'clock P. M. 

June 29. Heavy cannonading all night. An at- 
tempt was made a little to our left and front to cap- 
ture an outpost of ours, but it failed ; the rebs wore re- 
pulsed, and it is said with a loss of 90 prisoners; cannot 
vouch for the truth of tlie rumor, Eegiment ordered 
into the rifle pits to support Holcomb's 2d Vermont 
Battery. 

June 30. Were in the rifle pits near Holcomb's Bat- 
tery all night. There were sounds of a smart skirmish 
down on the extreme left, which continued about an 
hour. Col. Stone left today for Baton Rouge, sick. 

July 1. Regiment bivouacking near Brigade Head- 
quarters. Rebs made a raid into Springfield Landing, 
stampeding the guards and destroying a considerable 
amount of government stores. 

July 2. Regiment has laid in the woods near Brig- 
ade Headquarters this forenoon. Near noon orders 
came to fall in to repel an attack from the rebs in the 
rear who had raided Springfield Landing and after de- 
stroying the government stores there were now on the 
march for Port Hudson. The "march to Port Hud- 
son" proved to be a hoax, and the regiment was soon 
dismissed and at night went into the front rifle pits. 

July 3. Regiment occupied the rifle pits, supporting 
Holcomb's Battery. Rebel sharpshooters very active. 
Gen. Grover visited the battery this afternoon. He 
looks anxious and careworn. Relieved from rifle pits 
by the 116th New York. 

July 4. National salute fired at sunrise with shotted 
guns. This is not our usual way of celebrating our 
National birthday. Regiment received orders to get into 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 47 

line prepared to make another assault. The "Forlorn 
Hope" was already in position at the front. The regi- 
ment stood in line many long and weary hours, anx- 
iously awaiting the signal gun to commence the as- 
sault. For some reason the assault was not made, and 
after a tedious wait we were relieved and allowed to re- 
turn to camp. Another salute with shotted guns was 
fired at noon by Nims' Battery. A member of Co, E, 
who was captured from us on May 21st at Plains Store, 
escaped from Port Hudson today and came back to 
camp. 

July 5. Gen. Banks has just passed up to the front 
with a flag of truce. Ordered into the rifle pits at 
night. 

July 6. Passed the night in the rifle pits. The reg- 
iment is being rapidly decimated by hard duty and ex- 
posure to this terrible hot weather. 

July 7. Two "rebels came into headquarters from 
Port Hudson, and their accounts show that the garri- 
Bon can hold out but a very short time. 

Official news has been received from Gen. Grant 
that Vicksburg surrendered on the 4th. A gunboat 
came down river from that place early this morning 
bringing the news. Communication with the army 
was for some reason broken and it was quite late in the 
day before the message was delivered to Gen. Banks. 
It was at once communicated to the troops in the 
trenches; from man to man, from company to com- 
pany, from regiment to regiment the word passed, and 
the cheers from the men rang out and the long silenced 
bands filled the forests with the strains of the "Star 
Spangled Banner," "America," "Yankee Doodle" and 
other patriotic music. Received orders for the 48th to 



48 Forty-eighth Massachusetin Regiment 

occupy the rifle pits and support Holcomb's 2d Ver- 
mont Battery tonight. 

Before going on duty the Lieutenant-Colonel visited 
Gen. Augur's headquarters, by his request, and was par- 
ticularly instructed and cautioned as to his duty. He 
aaid, "You are going into the most important position 
on the line, and as the ranking officer on the brigade 
picket line you will be expected to exercise the greatest 
vigilance. The information we have leads us to expect 
that the enemy will offer to surrender or make an at- 
tempt to break out through our thin lines, and it is ex- 
pected that you will be prepared for either or any 
emergency. Double your outer picket line, keep your 
men well in hand and allow none to sleep. If any at- 
tempt is made to break out it must be prevented at all 
hazards till reinforcements reach you, which you may 
feel assured will be pushed forward to your assistance 
at the first alarm, and you must check the attack at the 
hazard of your lives ; two companies from another regi- 
ment will be ordered into the rifle pits to strengthen 
your line." Regiment went into the rifle pits at about 
9 o'clock in the evening. 

July 8. The inevitable has happened! Port Hud- 
son has fallen! Regiment laid quietly in rifle pits till 
shortly after 12 o'clock, midnight, the notes of a bugle 
were hoard in our front sounding "a parley," and a 
few seconds later an ofiicer with a small escort ap- 
proached, bearing a hmteru fixed to a long pole, with 
a white handkerchief tied beneath it to serve as a flag 
of truce. At the outpost the flag was halted and its 
object ascertained, which was the delivery of a dispatch 
to Gen. Banks from Gen. Gardner, in command of the 
Confederate forces in Port Hudson, which was imme- 




LANDING AT IJA'J'ON ROTTGE, LA., 
Looking Lfp River. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 49 

diately dispatched to Gen. Banks' headquarters by mes- 
senger. The dispatch contained a request for official 
assurance as to the truth of the report that Vieksburg 
had surrendered. If true, Gardner asked for a cessa- 
tion of hostilities, with a view to consider terms of sur- 
render of Port Hudson, and soon a blast upon a bugle 
brought back the little party of Confederates with the 
lantern swinging from the pole and the conference cul- 
minated in an agreement to surrender, and that a com- 
mission be appointed from each side to agree upon 
terms. 

Orders were immediately issued to cease firing all 
along the line and also from the fleet. Brig.-Gen. C. 
P. Stone, Col. Birge and Brig.-Gen. Dwight were desig- 
nated by Gen. Banks as such commission. At 9 o'clock 
this morning the commissioners from both armies met 
just in front of our position, and nearly on the spot 
where Lieut.-Col. O'Brien had formed his men while 
waiting for the word on that eventful 27th of May. 
On the Confederate side the commissioners were Col. 
Miles, Col. Steedman, 1st Alabama, and Lieut.-Col. 
Smith, Chief of Artillery. Gen. Andrew was desig- 
nated to receive the surrender, which it was finally de- 
cided should take place tomorrow morning, the 9th. 
The men of the 48th can feel with considerable satis- 
faction that through the carrying out of Col. Paine's 
plan (to crowd the hard work of the siege onto the nine 
months regiments) they have been placed in a position 
where they can claim the honor of receiving the flag 
of truce which surrendered this great stronghold after 
60 many weary and exciting weeks of fighting, digging 
and suffering. While the negotiations have been going 
on officers from some of the rebel regiments came over 



60 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Beginient 

into our lines and fraternized with us as socially as 
though no state of war ever existed between the two 
sections of the country, and one officer expressed the 
wish that the war could now close and the North and 
South combine and whip out England; his reason be- 
ing "that England had not recognized the independ- 
ence of the Confederacy after the Trent affair." 

July 9. The 48th was in line promptly at 4.30 this 
morning, in accordance with orders, but was obliged to 
wait until nearly 10 o'clock before commencing to 
march into Port Hudson, en route for Donaldsonville, 
at which hour the 48th with the Massachusetts 49th 
and 21st Maine took up the line of march to the land- 
ing and embarked on board steamer "Louisian Belle" 
late in the afternoon after the ceremony of surrender, 
which was very short. The rebels were drawn up in line 
with Gen. Gardner at their head, the right resting near 
the railroad station. When the command "ground 
arms" was given every man placed his musket upon 
the ground. It was a very affecting sight, and there 
was no man in the victorious army who did not experi- 
ence a feeling of pity go out to the brave men who had 
been compelled to surrender after so long and so bril- 
liant defense. Gen. Gardner tendered his sword to Gen. 
Andrews who declined to receive it. The rebel flag was 
hauled down from the flagstaff where it so defiantly 
floated through the siege. A salute was fired by the 
naval battery, the stars and stripes run up. The gar- 
rison filed off as prisoners of war, and all was over. 

More than 6,000 rebels surrendered. The soldiers 
were parolled but the officers were held as prisoners of 
war. Twenty pieces of heavy artillery and more than 
30 pieces of field artillery were captured. The loss of 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 51 

the 19th army corps during the siege has been nearly 
5,000 men. No correct account has been made of the 
rebel loss, but an approximate calculation will give it as 
nearly 1,000, which, considering that their fighting has 
been entirely behind breastworks, is very heavy. Port 
Hudson is a very strong place and would have cost us 
many more men to have taken it by storm. As we 
steamed away from the landing and gazed at the bluffs 
and remembered the long weeks of waiting in front of 
its land batteries we could but take a long drawn sigh 
of relief. We shall no doubt soon be sent home. 
Home ! Can any outside the army imagine what this 
word means to us who have lain so many weary weeks 
in the swamps of Louisiana, watching the lines of the 
enemy with the eyes of hungry wolves, dying by hun- 
dreds, by bullet, and shell, and disease. It means 
friends, comfort, life itself, in exchange for misery, 
squallor, dirt, a dog's life, and death, and an unknown 
grave. 

July 10. Eeached Donaldsonville at 9 o'clock A. M. 
While on the passage down, and we were at breakfast, 
the steamer was fired on from the shore, but happily 
no one was hit. The shots were returned from the boat, 
but with what results of course we could not know, but 
we were not further molested. 

After landing we made a reconnaissance till nearly 
dark when the regiment bivouacked for the night near 
the levee. The rebels have evidently drawn away their 
forces from the river and we shall probably have to seek 
them further inland. 

July 11. False alarm in the night. Eegiment fell 
in with arms, but were soon dismissed. 

July 12. A steamer came up from New Orleans 



52 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

which shows that the blockade is raised, and the Missis- 
sippi river throughout its whole length, is clear for the 
first time in two whole years. 

July 13. Col. Paine's brigade received orders while 
at breakfast to fall in and march to support Col. Dud- 
ley. Marched out several miles and halted to make 
preparations for dinner, there being no indications of 
being called into action very soon. Some were for- 
tunate enough to dine early, their meal being very 
frugal, and hard tack and coffee constituted their prin- 
cipal fare, and a little green corn from the fields. We 
were startled by the rattle of musketry in our immedi- 
ate front, and we were at once ordered into line and 
found that Dudley was engaged with the enemy and 
had been gradually driving them back until he came 
upon their main line, when he was in turn being slowly 
and obstinately forced back. Our brigade was now 
ordered to the front at "double quick" on the road par- 
allel to the bayou, and soon ordered to file to the right 
into a little green plantation road or path, and halted, 
our left resting on the bayou road. In our front was a 
rail fence with a deep ditch at the side of the road ; 
beyond the fence an open field of about 125 yards extent 
and beyond that an immense corn field. By the wavinir 
of the corn tops we could trace the movements of Dud- 
ley's men and could see that they were slowly rotreat- 
ing and coming back gradually towards our line. The 
regiment was ordered to occupy the ditch at the side of 
the road. Very soon Dudley's men made their appear- 
ance out of tlie corn, loading and firing as they fell 
slowly back. A more soldierly appearance could not 
have been made than was made by the regiment in our 
irairiediate front (the 161st New York, Col. Harrower.) 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 55 

as they retired, slowly, towards our line, turning 
and firing as they retreated. They came over the fence 
in our front and passed over us to our rear, where they 
laid down. The rebels followed them closely to the 
edge of the cornfield, and attempted to cross the open 
field in our front, but were immediately sent to the 
"right about" in some confusion, by the fire from the 
trusty rifles in the hands of the 48th boys who laid close 
to the ground, firing under the bottom rail in the 
fence, and the range being low the shots were very 
effective. 

A short time previous, Col. Paine had taken the 
49th out of their place in line, which was on our imme- 
diate right, leaving a gap in the brigade line which the 
48th was directed to cover with an oblique fire, thus 
giving us double ground to cover. Col. Paine before 
leaving with the 49th came to Lieut.-Col. Stanwood 
and directed him to hold our ground at all hazards till 
his return. 

The rebels tried several times to charge across the 
open field in our front, but were as often driven back by 
the steady fire from our men in the ditch. 

While this was transpiring, the rebels had driven back 
the brigade on the opposite side of the bayou until their 
fire enfiladed the left of our brigade, and at the same 
time were rapidly flanking the whole force on our 
right which began to fall back, and in a short time we 
were left alone upon the field. A staff officer from Col. 
Dudley rode up and ordered the Lieutenant-Colonel to 
retire the regiment. His authority was not recognized, 
Lieut.-Col. Stanwood having received orders from our 
own brigade commander (Col. Paine) to hold the 
ground at all hazards until his return, which order he 



54 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

held himself bound to obey. Soon on looking to the 
right and left not a blue-coated soldier could be seen, 
and away to the right the rebel could be seen passing 
rapidly to the rear. On the opposite side of the bayou 
the fighting was going on far to our rear while from 
our front in the corn desultory shots came, viciously 
etriking the fence rails above our heads. Feeling that 
in this case "discretion was the better part of valor" and 
not caring to be a second Cassabianca, he directed the 
men to pass the word quietly down the line, without 
rising, and retire from their position as best they could, 
and rally in the rear on the colors. 

This they did, and the rebs were so close that many 
of the men were captured before they had time to retire 
from the ditch ! The 48th lost in killed, wounded and 
missing 65 out of a total 201 men engaged. Lieut. 
Wilson, Co. D, and Lieut. Bassett, Co. I, were taken 
prisoners. Lieut. Wilson was reported as also wounded. 

The men after retiring from the ditch rallied in the 
tear, and later took their place in the line of the 
brigade in the rear and in a low swamp. A tremen- 
dous rain storm came up towards night flooding our 
camp. 

July 14. Our camp is located in a low swamp and is 
completely inundated. The men are all thoroughly 
soaked to the skin. The day has been spent in bringing 
in the dead and wounded. Among the dead is Edward 
T. Bennett of Co. B. 

July 15. Still in camp at Donaldsonville. Received 
dispatches from New Orleans, announcing a great vic- 
tory in Pennsylvania by Gen. Meade's army, on the 1st, 
2d and 3d days of July, The first week in July has 
been a week of tremendous importance to the Union 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Begiment 55 

cause — Vicksburg-Port Hudson, and now this great 
victory of Gen. Mead's at Gettysburg — three names long 
to be remembered in American history. We hear that 
Col. Stone has recovered his horse which was captured 
from him at the battle of Plains Store, May 21. 

July 16. Regiment received orders to change camp 
to the rear to secure higher ground, by which move the 
48th has secured the best location in the brigade line. 
There are all sorts of rumors in regard to going home. 
Suppose that some of them may be true and expect 
that now that Port Hudson has been taken that we 
shall be sent home before long. Eeceived word from 
Baton Eouge that Joseph B. Hale of Co. B died in the 
hospital there today. 

July 17. All prisoners taken from us on the 13th 
have been paroled, and have returned to camp today 
having marched from Thibadoux. They say that the 
rebs had less than a thousand men on our side of the 
bayou in the battle, and our defeat was all owing to bad 
generalship on the part of our commanding officers. 

July 18. Daniel F. Connell of Co. B who was taken 
prisoner on the 13th, came back to camp today, having 
been paroled, and walked from the rebel camp (which 
he thinks is nearly 100 miles from here) with one hard- 
tack and a little corn meal for his rations during the 
march. 

He thinks there are from 10,000 to 20,000 rebels 
between Donaldsonville and Thibadoux, with consider- 
able artillery. A continued discussion of the question 
of "going home" now principally occupies the time of 
the men. 

July 21. Capt. Bainbridge, a U. S. army officer, 
came to camp today and the Lieutenant-Colonel at 



56 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

once went before him and was mustered out as captain 
and immediately mustered in as Lieutenant-Colonel. 

July 32. Capt. Schoff, Lieut. Morrison with a detail 
of thirty-three men went foraging at 4.30 this morning 
and returned at 3 P. M. having gone out about nine 
miles and obtained a large amount of corn. The regi- 
ment is now nearly destitute of commissioned officers. 

July 23. The glorious news from Gen. Meade's 
army confirmed. Gen. Lee entirely defeated at Gettys- 
burg, Penn., and driven back into Virginia. Our 
friends at home have by this time heard of our victory 
at Port Hudson and will be now looking for our return- 
Heavy thunder showers today. 

July 24. Paymaster Maj. Palmer arrived at 7.30 
o'clock A. M. and proceeded to pay off the regiment, 
which feat was accomplished at noon. Maj. Palmer in- 
forms us that the campaign is over and the men are 
being sent home as fast as transportation can b« 
furnished. 

July 25. Alarm in the night caused by the picket! 
firing into some old horse or mule. 

July 26. Col. Love, 116th New York, in command 
of the brigade during Col. Paine's absence. 

July 27. Very quiet in camp last night. 

July 29. Eegiment received drums today, and re- 
sumed regular dress parades which have been greatly 
interfered with during the siege of Port Hudson and 
during the stay here in Donaldsonville. 

July 30. The camp here at Donaldsonville is evi- 
dently breaking up ; some of the troops are on the move 
at daylight. Gen. Weitzel's old brigade has marched 
for Thibadoux. We are still kept on the "ragged edge" 



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all the time looking for orders to start for Baton Rouge 
and home. 

July 31. Orders have been received at headquarters 
for our removal to Baton Eouge, as soon as transportar 
tion can be furnished. At 11.30 o'clock this forenoon 
orders were received to prepare to move immediately. 
Several steamers have come and gone but none for us as 
yet, which is very tantalizing. 

August 1. Steamer "Kepper" arrived and the 48th 
immediately went on board as also the 49th. Quarters 
were very much crowded and the men have suffered 
intensely on the hot deck during the passage up the 
river to Baton Eouge where we arrived just before dark. 
Disembarked with military precision. 

August 2. Glad to get to our old quarters which 
seems something like home. During the night some of 
the men were jubilantly celebrating their return and 
become over-boisterous. The chaplain's tent caught fire 
from some mysterious cause and burned down. Col. 
Stoue, although having left the regiment when in front 
of Port Hudson, and remained in Baton Eouge since 
that time on the sick list, took command of the regi- 
ment at once. 

August 3. Col. Stone decided that he is able to take 
command of the regiment. How little we anticipated 
when we left Baton Eouge in May what changes would 
take place before we should return in August — Lieut.- 
Col. O'Brien and so many other brave and good men 
gone. 

August 4. The Colonel has reported for duty. 
Orders have been received for an inspection of the 
regiment which at this time looks much like going home. 

August 5. Our old parade ground which we used 



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when we first came to Baton Rouge docs not look at all 
familiar. The 49th Eegiment has received orders to 
take transportation for New Orleans at once. 

August 6. We are expecting every moment to get 
orders to start for home, and the delay is very vexatious. 

August 7. Received orders to start for home hy way 
of the Mississippi river and Cairo, 111. (and in conse- 
quence we are all feeling happy), as soon as transporta- 
tion can he secured. 

August 8. The men are all busily engaged cleaning 
up guns and equipments to turn over before going 
home. Home ! how pleasant the sound, when it means 
80 much to us who have for so long a time been deprived 
of all the comforts of home. 

August 9. Inspection came off this morning at 7 
o'clock and everything was found in "spick and span" 
condition. Notice has been received that the steamer 
is awaiting us at the landing, and we have turned in all 
ordnance and ordnance stores, surplus clothing, camp 
and garrison equippage and are now on board steamer 
"Sunny South" ready for the start. 

August 10. Steamer started up river at 3 o'clock this 
morning and arrived opposite Port Hudson at sunrise. 
Our passing of the batteries was much more quietly 
accomplished than was Commodore Farragut's last 
March. The scenery on the Mississippi River is very 
monotonous and tame. Have passed only one little 
village today. Fort Adams passed at 3 o'clock P. M. 
The men are suffering terribly from heat on the "burn- 
ing deck." At 10 P. M. arrived at Natchez. Since 
coming to Louisiana we have been using New Orleans 
horse car tickets and postage stamps for change. 

August 11. We left Natchez at 5 P. M. The bluffs 



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here at Natchez are 150 feet in height. The city is 
very prettily situated. Passed village of Washington 
on the left at 10.30 A. M. Passed Gen. Taylor's plan- 
tation at 11.30 A. M.; Grand Gulf at 3 P. M.— a very 
strong place. Passed wreck of Indianola at sunset. 
Arrived at Vicksburg soon after 11 o'clock at night. 

August 12. Passed head of the celebrated Vicksburg 
canal at 11.15 A. M. Passed Millican's Bend at 2 
o'clock P. M. Steamer "Tempest" with the 49th 
Massachusetts on board has passed up. 

August 13. Passed Napoleon Ark at the mouth of 
the Arkansas Eiver about 9 o'clock. 

August 14. Arrived at Helena, Ark., at 1.30 P. M. 
Stopped to coal till 4 o'clock and went on shore to 
stretch our legs during the stay. It is a very strong 
natural fortification, and many artificial works have 
been erected in addition. Two men were drowned 
attempting to come on board. 

August 15. Arrived at Memphis at about 6 o'clock 
A. M. Left at 11.30 P. M. 

August 16. Steamer ran aground and stuck fast for 
two hours; reached Gayoso Landing at 4 P. M. 

One must travel on the Mississippi River to get any 
idea of its greatness. Here we go puffing along, day 
after day, and night after night, and we wake up every 
morning and the same grand old river stretches away 
before us. 

The distances on the Mississippi River are as follows : 
Passes to New Orleans, 125 miles; New Orleans to 
Baton Rouge, 130; Baton Rouge to Port Hudson, 30; 
Port Hudson to Natchez, 100; Natchez to Vicksburg, 
140; Vicksburg to Memphis, 360; Memphis to Cairo, 
240; total 1125 miles. . 



6U Forty-eighth Massachusetts liegimeni 

August 17. Arrived opposite Columbus, Kentucky, 
at 8 A. M. when the steamer was brought too by a shot 
across her bows from the Battery at this point. Ar- 
rived at Cairo, 111., at 10 A. M. While stopping here 
there has been some trouble with some of the more 
turbulent men on account of their not being allowed to 
go on shore. 

August 18. At 10 o'clock A. M. commenced chang- 
ing baggage from the steamer to the cars which occupied 
the time till about dark when the regiment went on 
board the cars and run out about 20 miles to a station 
called Wetaug, arriving a little before imdnight and 
stopped till daylight. The delay is very tedious and 
vexatious. We are going home and trains going to the 
front have the right of way and so we are side-tracked 
to await their passing. 

August 20, Still dragging slowly along. Arrived 
at Indianapolis, Ind., at 11 o'clock A. M. Regi- 
ment marched to the Soldiers' Home where a bountiful 
collation was furnished by the people of the city. Jamei 
H. Short of Co. B, who was very sick when we left 
Baton Rouge, was left here in the hospital, he not being 
able to travel further. 

August 21. Arrived at Gallion, Ohio, at 6 o'clock 
A. M. Could get nothing to eat on arrival, being at 
60 early an hour. Reached Crestline at 6.30 A. M. ; 
Cleveland at noon. Here we met with a very kind 
reception from the citizens with a good dinner; also the 
same repeated at Erie, Penn. Reached Buffalo at 9.30 
P. M. and received another splendid reception with 
collation. Here we changed cars and started for 
Albany at about midnight. 

August 22. Arrived at Utica at 10.30 A. M. and 



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61 



were tendered another fine collation spread at the side 
of the track. Continued on for Albany where we 
arrived about 4 o'clock P. M. ; went at once to the ferry 
and cars en route for Boston at sunset. Made good time 
and arrived at Springfield, Mass., at midnight. Here 
a few minutes were allowed to obtain lunch for which 
we had to pay a good round price-the first which has 
cost us a cent since leaving Cairo, and some considerable 
comment has been made that l^Iassachusetts should be 
the first to ask her returning soldiers to pay for their 

rations. 

August 23. Arrived in Boston without further inci- 
dents'" at 7.30 A. M. Marched to the Beach Street 
Barracks where we were served a government ration 
(which did not compare favorably with the food served 
out to us by the citizens of the cities and towns through 
which we have passed on our way home) after which 
the men were furloughed till September 3, then to 
report at our old Camp Lander at Wenham to be 
mustered out. 

September 3. Regiment reported at Camp Lander, 
Wenham, and were mustered out. Casualties during 
the campaign: Killed and died of wounds, 23; 
wounded, 73: died of disease, 40; total, 136. 

Maj.-Gen. Christopher C. Augur was in command of 
the 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, to which the 48th 
Massachusetts was attached and served its whole term 
of service. 

He was born in New York, but was appointed to 
West Point from Michigan; graduated 16th in the class 
of 1843 (in which class Gen. Grant was the 21st). 
He served in the Mexican war with credit, and at the 
breaking out of the Eebellion was given a commission 



<)2 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

of Brigadier-General of Volunteers Nov. 12, 18G1 ; was 
in command of a Division under Gen. Banks in the 
Shenandoah Valley, and was wounded severely at Cedar 
Mountain, receiving therefor a brevet of Colonel in the 
Regular Army; was promoted to Major-General of Vol- 
unteers, Aug. 9, 1802, and assigned to the command of 
the left wing of the army before Port Hudson, retired 
as full Brigadier-General in the Regular Army in 1885. 

Colonel Edward P. Chapin, who commanded the 1st 
Brigade in Gen. Augur's Division, of which the 48th 
Massachusetts constituted a part, was the Colonel of the 
116th New York. He was a very able and efficient 
officer, and it was expected that he would rise to 
advanced rank, but was killed in the desperate assault 
on Port Hudson, May 27, 1863, and thus the army and 
the country lost the services of a very promising officer. 
He was succeeded in the command of the Brigade by 
Col. Charles J. Paine of the 2d Louisiana Infantry, 
who remained in command during the remainder of the 
48th's term, and subsequently received the brevets of 
Brigadier and Major-General of Volunteers. 

The regiment, as finally made up, represented all 
classes. It contained recruits from the best old New 
England families in Essex and Middlesex, and from 
emigrants recently from foreign countries. A good 
example of the former was the late Samuel Hoar of 
Concord (son of the late Judge E. Rockwood Hoar and 
nephew of the late Senator George F. Hoar), who left 
college to enlist as a private soldier in Company E, and 
who served the full term, then re-entered and graduated 
at Harvard College. He subsequently became a very 
able lawyer and distinguished citizen. He died April 
11th, 1904, aged 59 years. 



Foriy-eightli Massachaseits Regiment 63 

Col. Eben F. Stone was a man of high character 
and standing in the communit}- in which he lived, and 
that had much to do with his selection to command the 
regiment. As time went on he failed somewhat as a 
tactician, and the regiment was at a disadvantage on 
this account, although he could have passed an excel- 
lent examination in tactics. He was a brave officer and 
well liked by the officers and soldiers of his regiment. 
Colonel Stone, after the war, made an honorable record 
in the civil service of the government. He served two 
years in the State Senate and two terms in Congress. 

Lieut. Col. O'Brien was regarded as a good officer 
and brave to the degree of recklessness. 

Capt. Stanwood earned the promotion which he 
received by a unanimous election as Lieutenant Colonel 
by able, faithful, and patriotic services. 

Dr. Yorick G. Hurd was one of the best surgeons of 
the Civil War. The death rate from sickness in our 
regiment was less than in any other in the Department, 
and that was due in great part to the faithful, consci- 
entious, and untiring services of Dr. Hurd. He had not 
a lazy bone in his body. After the war he rendered good 
services in the military and civil service of the State. 
He was medical director of the Division on the Staff of 
General B. F. Butler, with rank of Colonel, from 1867 
to 1876. He served two years in the State Senate. He 
did for many years excellent service as Master of the 
House of Correction and Superintendent of the Insane 
Asjdum at Ipswich. 

Capt. Edgar J. Sherman (of the same family of 
Roger Sherman and General William T. Sherman), 
enlisted as a private soldier and was subsequently elected 
Captain of Company F. 



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Wlien the regiment advanced on Port Hudson he 
was in the hospital sick of malarial fever. Hearing of 
the affair of Plains Store, the Captain, somewhat re- 
lieved of the fever but weak and emaciated, decided to 
join the regiment. The surgeons tried to induce him to 
remain a while longer, but not succeeding in this, gave 
orders forbidding it. The next morning the Captain 
put on his uniform, left the hospital, and took the early 
steamer for Springfield Landing. There he was met 
by the surgeons who called him a "walking ghost," and 
ordered him back to Baton Kouge. The Captain said 
he was not going on duty but only to visit the surgeon 
of his regiment and he was allowed to proceed. 

He was there several days, remaining with Dr. Hurd, 
when he learned that there was to be a charge on the 
enemy's works the next day. He at once determined 
to go on duty. The Colonel and surgeon advised against 
it, withholding their consent, the doctor saying, "Cap- 
tain, if you go into this fight and are not killed, your 
fever will come back and you will leave your bones in 
Louisiana." Capt. Sherman made the long march that 
night, with the aid of his soldiers, and led his two com- 
panies which carried the colors in the charge next day. 
When the charge did not succeed and the order came to 
get off the field, the Captain finally reached the ravine on 
the left, and was subsequently carried on a stretcher to 
the rear. Dr. ]Iurd found him exhausted, with the 
fever retiirning, and ordered him sent at once to the 
hospital at Baton Houge. 

Jiist as the Captain was being put into the ambu- 
lance he said to Dr. Hurd, "It is too bad about poor 
Captain Todd ; be went down right in front of me and 




THE IRONCLAD ESSEX. 




WHARF BOAT NATCHEZ, 
At Baton Rouge, La., 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 65 

we went right on over his dead body." ''Not by a d- 



sight !" said the Doctor. "I took an old broken French 
bayonet three inches long out of his mouth and he is 
all right." 

Captain Sherman was seriously and dangerously ill 
for some time, and it was feared that the Doctor's 
prophecy might become true,— that the Captain would 
"leave his bones in Louisiana," but he recovered suf- 
ficiently to return home with the regiment. 

Ofl&cers and men were so much needed at the time 
that Captain Sherman's disobedience of the order "not 
to leave the hospital" was condoned, and upon the 
recommendation of his superior officers, he was brevet- 
ted Major "for gallant and meritorious services." 

Major Sherman subsequently served in the military 
and civil services of the State. In 1864, at the time 
of General Early's raid on Washington, he raised a com- 
pany for one hundred days and was elected its Captain, 
and the company became Company K of the 6th 
Eegiment. 

He served as Assistant Adjutant General, with the 
rank of Colonel, and as Cliief of Staff of the Division, 
General B. F. Butler's, from 1867 to 1876. He served 
fourteen years as District Attorney for Essex County, 
five years as Attorney General, and now a Justice of the 
Superior Court, where he has served since 1887. 

Capt. J. Scott Todd was an excellent officer, always 
faithful to every duty. 

He was wounded and disabled in the charge on June 
14. The enemy were short of ammunition and they used 
broken iron. An old piece of a French bayonet three 
inches long struck him in the mouth, knocking out his 



66 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

upper and under front teeth, cutting his tongue in two, 
its full length, and finally embedded itself in the roof 
of his mouth. The blow was so severe that the Captain 
lay on the field stunned and unconscious for a long time. 
With assistance he finally reached the rear and the 
doctor removed the iron and he was soon in condition 
for duty. 

After the war the Captain did honorable service in 
the civil government of the State. He served two years 
in the State Senate. He also served for many years as 
a Trial Justice. 

The following is taken from Hanson's History of the 
Sixth Eegiment : 

"Company K, Capt. Edgar J. Sherman, Lawrence. 

"This company was a new one, raised mostly in 
Lawrence upon the call of the Governor for five 
thousand one hundred days men. Eecruiting com- 
menced on the 11th day of July, the company was filled 
on the 12th, went into camp on the 13th, was mustered 
into service on the 14th and on the 15th and 16th the 
men were clothed, armed and equipped throughout and 
ready to move on the 17th — just six days after the first 
movement was made. 

"Captain Sherman, says the Lawrence American 
(edited by Captain Merrill, who was at Port Hudson 
in the Fourth Eegiment), under extraordinary difficul- 
ties, raised a company of nine months men, enlisting 
himself as a private, from which he was promoted to a 
Captaincy, and, as we personally Imow, no braver or 
more faithful officer has left our city. Always atten- 
tive to the needs of his men, and even when weak and 



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emaciated with sickness, as we saw him at Port Hudson 
(in the 48th Massachusetts) leaving the hospital, 
against the positive prohibition of the surgeon, to lead 
his men in the assault. He was brevetted Major for 
'gallant and meritorious services/ " 



ADDENDA 



Col. Eben Francis Stone was Massachusetts repre- 
sentative in the Forty-ninth Congress, serving from. 
1881 to 1887. He died Jan. 22, 1895. 

Capt. Edgar J. Sherman has for several years been 
Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court. 

Chaplain S. J. Spalding died Jan. 10, 1892. 

Surgeon Yorick G. Hurd died Sept. 24, 1888. For 
several years he was superintendent of the House of 
Correction at Ipswich. 

Major George Wheatland was detailed on the Court 
Martial on March 6, 1863. He was with the regiment 
when not engaged with the Court Martial daily until 
May 8, 1863. He was then detailed on General Augur's 
staff and made Provost Judge of the department until 
relieved July 16. 1863, with accounts settled and 
orders to report in Boston. 

Capt. J. Scott Todd died Jan. 26, 1902. 



THE ROSTER 



PREFACE TO THE ROSTER 



The historian does not hold himself responsible for 
the absolute accuracy of the regimental roster as errors 
may have unavoidably crept in. But the roster was 
carefully compiled from the records kept at the State 
House and is a complete copy of such records. 

THE HISTORIAN. 



DESERTIONS 



The large number of desertions from some of the 
companies is accounted for by the fact that the recruits 
were brought to camp by agents of the cities who paid 
bounties as soon as the recruits were mustered into tlie 
United States service. 

The officers of those companies objected to accepting 
such recruits, prophesying that many of them would 
desert, but the objections were overruled and the officers 
were compelled to accept them. 



ROSTEROFTHE REGIMENT 



EBEN F. STONE. Col. Newburyport. Com. Dec. 8, 

1862. M. Dec. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. Capt. 

Co. A. Promoted Col. Dec. 8, 1862. 
JAMES O'BRIEN. Lt. Col. Charlestown. Com. Dec. 6, 

1862. M. Dec. 8, 1862. Killed in assault on Port Hud- 
son, La., May 22, 1863. 
EBEN P. STANWOOD. Lt. Col. W. Newbury. Com. June 

12, 1862. M. July 20, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Capt. 

Co. B. Lt. Col. July 2, 1863. 
GEORGE WHEATLAND. Major. Salem. Com. Dec. 6, 

1862. M. Dec. 8, 1862. Capt. Co. E. Promoted major. 
F. GILBERT OGDEN. Adj. Boston. Com. Dec. 27, 1862. 

M. Dec. 29. 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HORACE M. DURGIN. Q. M. Salem. Com. Dec. 8, 1862. 

M. Dec. 8, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
YORICK G. HURD. Surg. Amesbury. Com. Dec. 8, 1862. 

M. Dec. 8, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FRANCIS F. BROWN. Asst. Surg. Sudbury. Com. Dec. 

8, 1862. M. Dec. 8, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SAMUEL J. SPALDING. Chap. Newburyport. Com. 

Dec. 27, 1862. M. Dec. 29, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOSEPH E. MOODY. Sergt. Maj. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 9, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Co. A. Sergt. Maj. May 8, 1863. 
JOHN G. ROBINSON. Q. M. Sergt. Salem. Enl. Dec. 16, 

1862. M. Dec. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Prlv. Co. 

E. Q. M. Sergt. Dec. 8, 1863. 



74 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

JAMES W. CURRIER. Com. Sergt. Newburyport Enl. 

Aug. 14, 1862. M. Sept. 14, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Co. A. Com. Sergt. Dec. 8, 1863. 
ELISHA M. WHITE. Hosp. Stewd. Charlestown. Elnl. 

Oct. 1, 1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. 



COMPANY A 

CALVIN M. WOODWARD. Capt. Newburyport. Com. 

Dec. 11, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Dec. 13, 1862. 

1st Lt. Aug. 28, 1862. Capt. Dec. 11, 1862. Mustered 

Dec. 13, 1862. 
IRA F. LAWRY. 1st Lt. Newburyport. Com. Dec. 11, 

1862. Enl. Aug. 22. 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. 

Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHARLES P. MORRISON. 2nd Lt. Newburyport Com. 

Aug. 28, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3, 1863. 
EDWARD O. MORSE. 1st Sergt Newburyport Enl. 

Aug. 11, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3, 1863. 

Sergt 1st Sergt. June 22, 1863. 
JOHN W. DOLE. Sergt Newburyport Enl. Aug. 11, 

1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
WILLIAM H. BARTLETT. Sergt. Newburyport Enl. 

Aug. 11, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. Corpl. Sergt. Dec. 

11, 1862. Discharged to re-enlist in Hdqts. Troop, 

Dept of the Gulf, July 26, 1863. M. O. July 30, 1864. 
THOMAS B. ROBBINS. Sergt Newburyport Enl, Aug. 

25, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Sergt June 22, 1863. 
WILLIAM C. THOMPSON. Sergt. Newburyport Enl. 

Aug^ 21, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Sergt July 1, 1863. 
JAMES W. HERVEY. Sergt Newburyport Enl. Aug. 

13, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3, 1863. Prlv. 

Corpl. June 22, 1863. Sergt. Aug. 8, 1863. 
EDWIN A. CUTTER. Corpl. Newburyport Enl. Aug. 

25, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regimetit 75 

FRANCIS C. L. COOK. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

12, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1863. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ISAAC F. PORTER. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 12, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1863. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
AMOS B. GEORGE. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 9, 
1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Priv. 
Corpl. Dec. 8, 1862. 
GEORGE W. BROOKINGS. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. 
Aug. 23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
Priv. Corpl. Dec. 11, 1862. 
WILLIAM H. B. CURRIER. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. 
Aug. 22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
Priv. Corpl. June 22, 1863. 
JERE W PORTER. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 23, 
1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Priv. 
Corpl. June 22, 1863. 
EDMUND C. PEARSON. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. 
Aug. 13, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
Priv. Corpl. Aug. 3, 1863. 
ROBERT WALLACE ALLEN. Musician. Essex. Enl. 
Sept. 10, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Transferred Oct. 
1862, to Co. E, 5tli Regt. 
CHARLES E. MARDEN. Musician. Newburyport. Enl. 
Aug. 22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LOUIS D. B. SOMERBY. Musician. Newburyport. Enl. 
Sept. 13, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ADAMS, PHILIP T. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 12, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ALLEN, JOSEPH. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 

BARTLETT, JOSEPH. W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 23,' 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Sergt. to Aug. 3, 1863. 

BATCHELDER, ALBERT R. Priv. Newburyport Enl. 

Aug. 23, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3, 1863. 

BOODEN, WILLIAM. Priv. Newburyport Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862.' M. Sept 16, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
BRICHER, WILLIAM. Priv. Newburyport Enl. Aug. 
21, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept 3. 1863. 



76 Forty-eighih Massachusetis Regiment 

BROOKINGS, SAMUEL, SR. Priv. Newburyport. EJnl. 

Dec. 8. 1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROOKINGS, SAMUEL, JR. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 12, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROWN, GEORGE R. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

27, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROWN, SAMUEL E. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BURNS, JOSEPH. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHAPMAN, EDWARD. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHUTE, WILLIAM B. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 22, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COLEMAN, JOHN M. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 17, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CROSS, HENRY M. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 20, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 8, 1863. 
CURRIER, GEORGE C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CURRIER, LA ROY. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 13, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DAVENPORT, GEORGE, Priv, Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DE COSTER, CHARLES C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 186S. 
DODGE, RAYNAL. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 30, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DUNN, MICHAEL. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 16, 

1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EATON, LEONARD W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

11, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Discharged Dec. 18, 1862, 

disabled while in U. S. service. 
FARRADAT, THOMAS. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

29, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FROTHINGHAM, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 23, 1862. M, Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GEORGE, ROBERT B. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 

9, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Furiy-eiglith ^lassachusetts liegiment 11 

GOULD. ELISHA P. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 14, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HARDY, HENRY. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 21, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HASKELL, ALEXANDER E. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HENNESSEY, PATRICK. Priv. Newburyport. Enl, 

Aug. 22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HOUSTON, THADDEUS. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Died Apr. 22, 1863, of 

fever at Regt. Hospital at Baton Rouge, La. 
HOWARD, CALEB C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 24, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HUSE, RALPH C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 9, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HYNES, GEORGE H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 14, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KEEFE, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 16, 1862. 

M. Sept. 16, 1862. Discharged Dec. 19, 1862, disability, 

while in U. S. service. 
KEENE, JAMES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 

1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. Deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
KEYES, BENJAMIN F. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LATTIME, ALDIS W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LAWRY, ROBERT. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 9, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LEWIS, BENJAMIN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 

1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LUNT, RICHARD K. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22. 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Killed June 14, 1863, in 

charge on Port Hudson, La. 
MELANCH, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Absent when the Regt. was 

mustered out. 
MOODY. HENRY. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORSE, NATHANIEL. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

11, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



78 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

MORTON, REGINALD. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

21, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MOYNAHAN, JAMES C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NEAL, NATHANIEL C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PEABODY, NICHOLAS P. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Died June 17, 1863, 

at Regt. Hospital at Baton Rouge, La., from wounds 

received in assault on Port Hudson, La. 
PEARSON, AMOS W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PEARSON, EDWARD G. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PEARSON, EUGENE A. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PERKINS, EBEN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PERKINS, JOHN N. Priv, Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 21, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PERKINS, SAMUEL H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

11, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PERKINS, WILLIAM P. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept 

30, 1862. M. Sept. 30, 1862. Died May 21, 1863, at 

Regt. Hospital, Baton Rouge, La. 
PETTINGILL, WILLIAM H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 15, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIERCE, BENJAMIN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIERCE, JOHN W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 20, 

1862. M. Sept. 20, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIPER, GEORGE W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
POOR, CHARLES W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Killed May 27, 1863, in 

charge on Port Hudson, La. 
PUTNAM, JOHN J. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RICHARDSON, HENRY J. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 19, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 79 

RICKER, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RUSSELL, JOSEPH G. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

30, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RUSSELL, NATHAN H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 

6, 1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SARGENT, LYMAN S. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Oct 

1, 1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SCRIBNER, DAVID. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 16, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SCRIVEN, EDWARD. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SEALEY, EDWARD P. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SHORT, HENRY, JR. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, CHARLES O. Priv. W. Mansfield. Enl. Aug. 
22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Transferred to Co. F 

Nov., 1862. 
STORY, JOHN W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 4, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STOVER, NATHANIEL F. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 21, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TIDD, CHARLES L. Priv. Lexington. Enl. Sept. 2, 

1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TITCOMB, GEORGE H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TAPPAN, NATHANIEL D. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. '23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
VERINA, EDMUND C. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Oct. 1, 

1862.' M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WALKER, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Deserted. 

Not on muster roll and no further record. 
WALTON, JOHN H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 30, 

1862. ' M. Sept. 30, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WATTS, WILLIAM A. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

25, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WHITING, DANIEL B. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 
23, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



80 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Begiment 

WOODWELL, EDWARD F. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 14, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WOODWELL, LEWIS F. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

14, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



COMPANY B 

MOSES B. MERRILL. Capt. W. Newbury. Com. June 

22, 1863. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 2nd 

Lt. Aug. 30, 1862. Capt. June 22, 1863. 
HENRY G. ROLLINS. 1st Lt. Groveland. Com. Aug. 

30, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Act- 
ing Brig. Com. May 22, 1863. 
JAMES S. WALSH. 2nd Lt. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 1st 

Sergt. 2nd Lt. June 22, 1863. 
ALBERT PLUMMER. 1st Sergt. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Sergt. 1st Sergt. July 8, 1863. 
FRANK M. PILLSBURY. Sergt. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Sergt. July 8, 1863. 
JOHN HINKSON HARDY. Sergt. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Sergt. Sept. 8, 1863. 
JOHN W. HOGG. Sergt. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died Jan. 30, 1863, New Or- 
leans, La. 
MOSES YOUNG. Sergt. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. 

Sept. 24, 1863. 
WILLIAM T. WOODBURN. Sergt. W. Newbury. Enl.. 

Aug. IS, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 

Sergt. Mar. 1. 1863. 
WILLIAM H. JACKMAN. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. 

Aug. 13, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died Apr. 28, 1863, 

at Baton Rouge, La. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 81 

DAVID E. N. CARLETON. Corpl. W. Newbury. Enl. 

Aug. 26. 1S62. M. Sept. 24, 18«2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

WILLIAM BALCH. Corpl. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 18. 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
ISAAC W. HUGHES. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

16. 38C2. M. Sept. 24, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
JOSEPH B. HALE. Corpl. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 27, 1862. 
M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died July 16, 1863. at Baton Rouge, 
La. 
CHARLES LITTLE. Corpl. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 
1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged April 27, 1863. 
for disability. 
WILLIAM P. CONWAY. Corpl. Lynn. Enl. Sept. 8, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JAMES N. FROST. Corpl. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 
M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. Aug. 1, 
1863. 
EBENEZER CARLETON. Corpl. W. Newbury. Enl. 
Sept. 5, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
Corpl. July 16, 1863. 
EZRA HALE, JR. Corpl. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 
M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. July 16. 
1863. 
JOSHUA ORDWAY. Musician. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GEORGE E. YOUNG. Musician. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

30, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HOSKA W. ORDWAY. Wagoner. W. Newbury. Enl. 
Aug. IS, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ABBOTT. DANIEL B. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 1, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ADAMS, JEREMIAH M. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ANDERSON. DAVID M. Priv. Boxford. Enl. Aug. 23. 

1862. M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ATWOOD, GEORGE H. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 

10, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BAILEY, HORACE N. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 
30, 1862. M. Sept. 30, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



82 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

BALCH, HIRAM. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BALCH, WARREN. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 30, 

1862. M. Sept. 30, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BENNETT, EDWARD T. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 

6, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1S62. Killed July 13, 1863, in 

action at Donaldsonville, La. 
BODWELL, LEONARD. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 10, 

1862. M. Oct. 10, 1862. Discharged Dec. 17, 1862, for 

disability. 
BRAY, E., JR. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. M. 

Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROCK, EBKN, JR. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 25, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROWN. JAMES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 20, 

18i52. M. Dec 20, 1862. Transferred Mar. 28, 1863. 
CARTER, RICHARD T. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CLARK, CHARLES. Pnv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Oct. 20, 1802. Deserted Oct. 22, 1862. 
CLEARY, DAVID W. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 25, 

1862. M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CONNELL, DAVID F. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CR0M13IE, THOMAS W. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

2.5, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 186':^ M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DANFORTI-I, GEORGE E. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

18, ]862. M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DEARBORN, EBEN H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DEARBORN, HARRISON W. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died June 8, 1863, at 

Baton Rouge, La. 
DONOVAN, JOHN. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 9, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EMERY, FRANCIS B. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1S62. M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FARRINGTON, CALVIN A. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

25, 1862. M. Sept., 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 83 

FOSTER FRANK N. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 15, 
18G2.' M. Sept. 24. 1862. Died Mar. 13, 1863, at Baton 
Rouge, La. 
FOYE, HIRAM S. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Sept. 11, 1862. 
M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged Apr. 7, 1863, for dis- 
ability. 
FREEMAN, RICHARD. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Uct. 

22, 1862. M. Oct. 22, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 55, 1862. 
FROST, WHITFIELD. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 29, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FULLER, JAMES S. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 

1862. Deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
GILES. .TOHN. Priv. Ipswicli. Enl. Sept. 19, 1802. M. 

Sept 24, 1862. Deserted Oct. 25, 1862. 
GILMAN, CHARLES S. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Oct. 6, 

1862. M. Oct. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GOULD EBEN. Priv. Boxford. Enl. Sept. 20. 1802. M. 
Sept. 24. 1862. Deserted Dec. 24, 1862, reported to Co. 
Sept. 3.' 1863, day the regt. was mustered out. Says 
he reported to Provost Marshal at Boston. 
GOULD. MARION. Priv. Boxford. Enl. Sept. 20. 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1802. Deserted. 
GREEN, SAMUEL A. Priv. Lynn. Enl. Sept. 23. 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GREENLEAF, WILLIAM H. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 27, 

18G2 M. Oct. 27, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HALE. LEWIS H. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18. 1862. M. 

Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. .Sept. 3, 1863. 
HARDY. AARON W. Priv. Groveland. Enl. A"g. 25, 
1862. M. Sept. 24, 1864. Discharged Dec. 17, 18bZ, 
for disability. 
HARDY, ASA F. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 30, 186^. 

M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
HARDY, BENJAMIN L. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862 M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
HARDY JOHN HARRIMAN. Priv. Groveland. Enl. 
Aug. 15. 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1802. Died May 24, 1863, 

at Baton Rouge. La. ■■ -c. i 

HARDY JOHN HERSCHEL. Priv. Groveland. Enl. 
Aug. 21, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



84 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

HARDY, MANCYL, C. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 21. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 18G3. 
HILLS, JOSHUA. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 30. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HILLS, THOMAS G. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 16, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HUDSON, RICHARD. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

18t!2. M. Sept. 24. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JACKMAN, ROBERT N. Priv. Newbury port. Enl. Sept. 

8, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JANVRIN. DENNIS A. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 

17. 1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JEWETT, WILLIAM B. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHNSON, FRANK F. Priv. Methueu. Enl. Dec. 6, 1862. 

M. Dec. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHNSON, HARLAN P. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1802. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHNSON, LUCIUS C. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

25, 1S62. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KELLEY, JAMES E. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 20, 

1802. M. Sept. 30, 1862. Died May 3, 1863. at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
MARSH, HENRY G. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MEEHAN, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 

17, 1862. M. Dec. 17, 1802. Deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
MITCHELL, CHARLES H. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MITCHELL, GEORGE H. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
MITCHELL, JOHN. Priv. Methuen. Enl. Dec. 6, 18C2. 

M. Dec. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORSE, JOHN A. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 19. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
MORSE, JOSEPH. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 4, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MOYLAN, THOMAS E. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept. 

3. 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1S02. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 85 

MULCAHY, LAWRENCE. Priv. Methuen. Enl. Dec. 6, 

1862. M. Dec. 6, 1862. Deserted Dec. 6, 1862. 
NELSON, DARIUS H. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 21, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Killed June 14, 1863, in ac- 
tion at Port Hudson. 
NELSON, WILLIAM H. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

30, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NOYES, JOSEPH OSCAR. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'LAUGHLIN, JOHN. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 26, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PREBLE, CHARLES E. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PRESCOTT, FRANK L. Priv. Exeter, N. H. Enl. Oct 

8, 1862. M. Oct 8, 1862. Discharged Feb. 22, 1863. 

for disability. 
REEDY, THOMAS. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Sept 1, 1862. 

M. Sept 24, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
RICHARDSON, EDWARD. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

25, 1802. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged May 28. 1863, 

for disability. 
RICHARDSON, ELBRIDGE A. Priv. W. Newbury. EnL 

Aug. 18, 1862. M. Sept 24, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
RYAN, WILLIAM. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 20, 

1862. M. Sept 24, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
SANBORN, JEREMIAH B. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept 16, 1862. Died Feb. 22, 1803, at 

Baton Rouge, La. 
SAYWARD, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport Enl. Sept 8, 

1862. M. Sept 24, 1862. Deserted Oct 25, 1862. 
SHORT, ISAAC 11. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept 26, 

1862. M. Sept 20, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
SHORT, .TAMES H. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Sept 26, 

1862. M. Sept. 26, 1862. Absent sick in Indianapolis 

when the reg't was mustered out. 
SMITH, CHARLES L. Priv. Boxford. Enl. Sept 20, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Absent sick when the reg't 

•was mustered out. 



86 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

STANLEY, GEORGE. Priv. Taunton. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Oct. 21, 1862. Deserted Oct.' 22, 1862. 
STICKNEY, OSCAR M. Priv. Groveland. Enl. Sept. 3, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SWAIN, WILLIAM. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. 

M. Oct. 10, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WEBSTER, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 

17, 1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. Deserted Dec. 18, 1862. 
WHITING, CHARLES A. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
WILSON, JULIUS R. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WOOD, ROBERT. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Doc. 17, 
1862. M. Dec. 17, 1862. Deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 



COMPANY C 

WILLIAM L. PETTENGILL. Capt. Salisbury. Com. Sept. 

1, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN O. CURRIER. 1st Lt. Amesbury. Com. Sept. 1, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Resigned Mar. 7, 1883. 
JAMES A. EMERY. 1st Lt. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. 

1st Lt. May 8, 1863. 
SAMUEL COFFIN. 2nd Lt. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 1st 

Sergt. 2nd Lt. May 8, 1863. Mustered June 12, 1863, 

to date May 8, 1863. 
EDWIN T. PIKE. 1st Sergt. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 25, 

1852. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. 

1st Sergt. May 8, 1863. 
EDWARD L. SHAW. Sergt. N. Y. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. Sergt. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

8, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOSEPH M. EATON. Sergt. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 28, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. 

Sergt. May 8, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 87 

STEPHEN F. WOODMAN. Sergt. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 

8, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. 

Sergt. May 8, 1863. 
JOSIAH D. LITTLE. Corpl. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JONATHAN B. TEWKSBURY. Corpl. Amesbury. Enl. 

Sept. 7, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged July 23, 

1863, by the order of Maj. Gen. Banks. 

CHARLES P. BURRILL. Corpl. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1SG2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged July 23, 1863. 

Enl. for 1 yr. in Hdqts. Troop, Dept. of the Gulf July 

11, 1863, in Co. B. Mustered July 24, 1863. Mustered 

out as private July 30, 1864. 
PERKINS MERRILL. Corpl. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GEORGE K. PIKE. Corpl. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WILLIAM H. GIDDINGS. Corpl. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

19, 18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
CHARLES W. HUNT. Corpl. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 19, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1863. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SIMEON NASH. Corpl. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GEORGE E. BATCHELDER. Corpl. Salisbury. Enl. 

Sept. 8, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HENRY W. CROSBY. Musician. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. De- 
tailed as chief musician. 
JOSEPH N. DORR. Musician. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

4, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN D. COLBY. Musician. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOSEPH S. PIKE. Wagoner. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

28, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BAHAN, MICHAEL. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 24, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BAILEY, GEORGE P. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 

4, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



88 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

BARNARD, EDMUND E. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl, Aug. 

15, 18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1S62. Killed May 21, 1863, in 

action at Port Hudson, La. 
BARTLETT, DAVID B. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 4, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BARTLETT, ELIAS P. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

26, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BLAISDELL, JAMES, JR. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROWN, JOHN H. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 24, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. Died Aug. 19, 1863, near Cairo, 111., 

en route home. 
BROWN, JOSIAH F. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged July 23, 1863, by 

the order of Maj. Gen. Banks. 
CLARK, DAVID F. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 24. 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COFFIN, JOHN W. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Died Mar. 15, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
COLLINS, ENOCH M. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Sept 1, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COLLINS, JOSEPH W. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COLLINS, WARREN P. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 8, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Died Jan. 24, 1863, on board 

the U. S. S. Constellation. 
CROWTHER, ISAAC. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 23, 

1832. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CURRIER, DANIEL W. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Sept 

1, 1862. M. Sept 23, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
CURRIER, JONATHAN B. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

15, 1862. M. Sept 23, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
CURTIS, GEORGE A. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Sept 1, 

18G2. M. Sept 23, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
DEWHURST, EDMUND K. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept 

23, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged July 23, 1863, 
by the order of Maj. Gen. Banks. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 89 

DOW, AARON M. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOW, JOHN, JR. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOW, STEPHEN. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 1. 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EATON, SAMUEL. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ELKINS, ALPHONSO D. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

4, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EVANS, SAMUEL A. Priv. Araesbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FOLLANSBEE, JOSHUA A. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

25, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GALLAGHER. THOMAS L. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GOODWIN, ROBERT T. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 25, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GOWEN, AMOS L. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 23. 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged Dec. 27, 1862, for dis- 
ability. Correct name Cornelius S. 
GRANT, GEORGE A. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GREENLEAF, WILLIAM M. Priv. E. Salisbury. EnL 

Aug. 28, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
HAYFORD, ALBION. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 20, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HEALEY, ELBRIDGE A. Priv. Salisbury Mills. Enl. 

Sept. 4, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HINKSON, BENJAMIN. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HYDE, CHARLES T. Priv. Great Falls, N. H. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
JACKMAN, FRANCIS A. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

1, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JONES. JOHN C. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 20. 1862- 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JONES, WILLIAM V. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 8, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



90 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

LAMB, THOMAS. Priv. Salisbury Mills. Enl. Aug. 24, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LAMPREY, EMERY N. Priv. Salisbury Mills. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LEWIS, ALVIN. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 2C, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
LITTLE, JOHN A. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LONG, GEORGE. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
Mcdonald, JAMES. Prlv. Amesbury Mills. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
McWILLIAMS, RICHARD. Prlv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged July 23. 18C3. 

Enlisted June 30, 18C3, and mustered July 25, 1863, as 

priv. in Co. B, Hdqts. Troop, 19th Army Corps, Dept. 

of the Gulf. Mustered out July 30, 1864. 
MOODY, GARDNER S. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

27, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MOODY, WILLIAM. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MOORE, BERNARD. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Dec. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 5, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORRILL, ALBERT. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORRILL, ALPHAMEO. Priv. Amesbury Mills. Enl. 

Sept. 7, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORRILL, SAMUEL L. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

1, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORSE, STEPHEN G. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 23, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Died July 8, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
NOYES, CHARLES W. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NUTTER, CHARLES O. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 

22, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
OSGOOD, EDWARD P. Priv. Amesbury Mills. Enl. Aug. 

24, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 91 

PAGE, JOHN. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. M. 

Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PAGE, WILLIAM H. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PHILLIPS, CHARLES T. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl Sept. 

8, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PICKERING, JOHN D. Priv. Salisbury Mills. Enl. Aug. 

19, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Discharged by the order 
of Maj. Gen. Banks. 

PIKE, AARON. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIKE, AMASA. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 29, 1862. 

M. Oct. 29, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIKE, JOHN B. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIKE, ISAIAH F. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 15, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIKE, OTIS G. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 27, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PIKE, WILLIAM H. H. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

20, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PLUNKETT, JAMES W. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROE, JAMES. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RUDDOCK, HORACE. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SCHO FIELD, JOHN. Priv. S. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 20, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STEVENS, BATCHELDER. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Sept. 

6, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STEVENS, MOSES. Priv. S. Amesbury. Enl. Sept. 5, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STEVENSON, JOSEPH H. Priv. Salisbury Mills Enl. 

Aug. 18, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
TETLEY, WILLIAM. Priv. S. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 24, 

18G2. M. Sept. 23, 1862. Deserted Oct. 18, 1862. 
TILTON, JONATHAN K. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 

27, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



92 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

TOBIN, JAMES. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 24, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
TRUE, JACOB E. Priv. E. Salisbury. Enl. Aug. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
UNDERHILL, CHARLES P. Priv. Amesbury Mills. Enl. 

Sept. 3, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WELCH, THOMAS. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. 

M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



COMPANY D 

BENJAMIN F. NOYES. Capt. Newbury. Com. Sept. 10. 

1802. M. Sept 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WILLIAM LORD, 4th. 1st Lieut. Ipswich. Com. Sept. 10, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
JAMES WILSON. 2nrt Lieut. Topsfield. Com. Sept. 10, 

1862. M. Sept. 21, 1SG2. Taken prisoner at the battle 

of Donaldsonville, July 3, 1863. Absent prisoner of war 

when the regt. was M. O. 
CALVIN R. TITCOMB. 1st Sergt. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN R. BAKER. Sergt. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. until May 

1, 1803, acting 2nd Lt. Co. I, Mar. 10, 1863, to May 1, 

1863. 
ENOCH S. ROGERS. Sergt. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LEWIS B. ROGERS. Sergt. Newbury. Enl. Aug. lb*, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1SC2. Discharged Dec. 18, 1862, disability. 
NATHANIEL NOYES. Sergt. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died May 10, 1863 at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
THOMAS M. TODD. Sergt. Ipswich. Enl. Oct. 14, 1862. 

M. Oct. 14, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. Sergt. May 

1, 1863. 
LUTHER P. BLAISDELL. Sergt. W. Newbury. EnL 

Aug. 18, 18C2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Corpl. Sergt. May 1, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 93- 

GEORGE W. NOYES. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Sept. 19. 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHARLES O. TODD. Corpl. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EDWARD PLOUFF, JR. Corpl. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1S62. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN HALEY. Corpl. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. M. 

Sept. 24, 1362. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GEORGE BLODGETT. Corpl. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded May 

27, 1863, at Port Hudson, La. 
JESSE T. BROWN. Corpl. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. Wounded May 

27. 1863, at Port Hudson, La. 
THOMAS E. CONDON. Corpl. Ipswich. Enl. Sept. 24. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HENRY W. PHILLIPS. Corpl. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 10. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded 

May 27, 1863. at Port Hudson, La. 
PHILIP L. ROGERS. Musician. Newbury. Enl. Aug. IS, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ALFRED C. RICHARDSON. Musician. Rowley. Enl. Oct 

14, 1862. M. Oct. 14, 1862. Died Aug. 8, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
WILLIAM T. SANBORN. Wagoner. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Absent sick at home when 

regt. w^as M. O. 
ANDREWS, CALVIN. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. Sick at home when the regt. left 

Mass. Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, disability. 
ANDREW, ISAAC M. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29. 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ANDREWS. LUTHER B. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24. Discharged to re-enlist in Hdqts. 

Troop, Dept. of the Gulf. Mustered Co. B Hdqts. 

Troops. Died July 6, 1864, at University Gen. Hosp. at 

New Orlenas. La., as Priv. 
ATKINSON, SAMUEL D Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29. 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



94 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

BAILEY, BENJAMIN S. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

18C2. M. .Sept. 24, isr,2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
BAILEY, HENRY. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 18G2. 

M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SC3. Bayley correct 

name. 
BAKER, RICHARD. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Dec. 3, 18G2, 

M. Dec. 3, ISC^y.. M. O. Sept. S, 18C3. 
BIXBY, JOSEPH A. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1802. M. O Sept. 3, 18C3. 
BLAISDELL, LORENZO B. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 

18, 18C2. M. Sept. 24, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
BOARDMAN, THOMAS F. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 

10, 18f)2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BRIDGES, RICHARD A. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Oct. 29, 

18C2. M. Oct. 29, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
RRO^VN EDWARD. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Sept. 2G, 1862. 

M. Sept. 26, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
BROWN, WALTER, JR. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 2, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1.S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BUCKLf^Y, MICHA1!:L. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 1, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 21, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BURNHAM, NATHANIEL. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CAFFREY, THOMAS. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHAPMAN, MOSES. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COTTON, CHARLES T. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CRANE, WILLIAM P., JR. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Oct. 14, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DAVIS, CHARLES. Priv. So. Gardner. Enl. Dec. 12, 1862. 

M. Dec. 12, 1862. Deserted Dec. 13, 1862. 
DELAND. ROYAL A. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
DENNETT, MOSES M. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 22, 

1862. M. Oct. 22, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DEVINE. JOHN. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 95 

FOSTER, EDWIN K. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. Detailed Hosp. 

Nurse Feb. 1, 1S03. 
FULLER, THOMAS. Priv. Bcxford. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SC3. 
GALKRETH, JOHN. Priv. Ippwich. Enl. Dec. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 1, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
GOODHUE, NATHANIEL. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 1S(J2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
GOULD, EMERSON P. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Dec. 3, 1862. 

M. Dec. 3, 1S(;2. Died June 5, 18C3, at Baton Rouge, La. 
GOULD, RHINE AS B. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 18n2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
GOULD, WILLIAM H. Priv. W. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
GRANT. JA^MES H. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Dec. 23, 1862. 

M. Dec. 23, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
HARRIS, ISAAC B. Priv. Bradford. Enl. Dec. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 1, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
HlNKl.EY, JOHN. Priv. Gloucester. Enl. Dec. 18, 1862. 

M. Dec. IS, 1SG2. Deserted Dec. 19. 18G2. 
HOOPER, EDWARD P. Priv. Manchester. Enl. Oct. 29. 

1.SG2. M. Oct. 29, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
WILKINS, JAMES W. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, I8G2. Died May 13, 18G3, at Baton Rouge, 

La. 
JENNESS, CHARLES B. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 28, 

1862. M. Oct. 28, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. Wounded 

in action Donaldsonville, La., July 13, 18G3. 
JONES, MERRICK. Priv. Newburyporl. Enl. Dec. 19, 

18^2. M. Dec. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
KELLEY, BARTLETT. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
KINSMAN, JOSEPH. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
KNEELAND, ALFRED A. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 10, 

18G2. M. Sept. 24, 18G2. Died Aug. 29, 18G3, at Tops- 
field, Mass., after the regt. returned home. 



96 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

KNEELAND, DAVID H. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug, 18, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 24, 1S62. Absent when the reg't was 

mustered out. 
LAKE. JOHN W. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. M. 

Sept. 24, 1SG2. Died Aug. 5, 18G3, at Baton Rouge, La. 
LAKEMAN, PERLEY R, Priv. Ipswich. Enl, Aug, 29, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LINDBURG, MARCUS. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Dec. 23, 

1862. M. Dec. 23, 18G2. M. O. Sept, 3, 1863. 
LOU'REY, THOMAS, Priv, Bradford. Enl. Dec. 3, 1862. 

M, Dec. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Mustered out as 

Lowery. 
MAGUIRE, JOHN. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MAY, WILLIAM O. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. IS, 

1862. M. Dec. 18, 1862. Deserted Dec. 27, 1862, 
MILLETT, EDWARD, Priv, Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18. 1862. 

M, Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Detailed as reg't 

butcher. 
MILLETT, GEORGE D. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORLEY, GEORGE W, Priv, Ipswich. Enl. Aug, 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862, Died July 19, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La., wounded in action at Donaldsonville, La. 
MUNDAY, WILLIAM H. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 10, 

1862, M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged Dec. 12, 1862, dis- 
ability. 
NORMAN, ALFRED. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NOYES, JOSHUA. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 6, 1862. 

M. Nov. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NOYES, WALTER. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18. 1862. 

M. Sept. 24. 1862. Died Jan. 24, 1863, at sea on board 

U, S. S. Constellation. 
NUSSBAUM, LEVI. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 19, 

1862. M. Dec. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PERLEY, ALBERT, Priv. Boxford. Enl. Sept 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded May 

27, 1863, in action at Port Hudson, La. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 97 

PICKARD, GREENI.EAF A. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PILLSBURY, HIRAM P. Priv. Newbury, Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PILLSBURY, LEONARD. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1S62. M. Sept. 24, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PLOUFF, JOHN W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 23, 

1862. M. Dec. 23, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PLUMMBR, WILLIAM. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 18, 18G2. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
POTTER, JAMES A. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. Killed May 27, 1863, in action at Port 

Hudson, La. 
PRINCE, CHARLES H. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged June 12, 1863, to 

re-enlist. 
ROGERS, CHRISTOPHER. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1S62. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROGERS EDWARD L. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18. 

1S62. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Wounded May 21, 1863, in ac- 
tion at Port Hudson, La. Absent sick at home when 

the reg't was mustered out. 
ROGERS, GORHAM P. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROGERS, MELVIN B. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROGERS, PHILIP. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, disability. 
SCANKS, DANIEL R. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. Died April 20, 1863, at Baton Rouge, 

La. 
SCANKS, JACOB P. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SCOTT, WILLIAM. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 20, 

1862. M. Dec. 20, 1862. Deserted Dec. 27. 1862. 
SHERBURNE, GEORGE W. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, ANDRliJW F. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged Mar. 19, 1863. 



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SMITH, JAMES. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Dec. 1, 1862. M. 

Dec. 1, 18G2. Deserted Dec. 12, 18C2. 
STEVENS, WILLIAM, JR. Priv. Boston. Enl. Aug. 29, 

18C2. M. Sept. 24, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3, 
STONE, LORENZO R. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STRANGMAN, JACOB. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept 18, 

1862. M. Sept." 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SWEET, ELBRIDGE G. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. Discharged July, 1863, by the 

order of Maj. Gen. Banks to re-enlist. 
TIBBETS, JAMES. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1802. Died May 16, 1863, at Baton Rouge, 

La. 
TITCOMB, JOHN F. Priv. Rowley. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TOWLE, JENNE3S. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WAIT, JOSEPH F. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WAIT, ROGERS. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WALLACE, HENRY. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Dec. 3, 1862. 

M. Dec. 3, 1862. Deserted Dec. 12. 1862. 
WILDES, LEWIS H. Priv. Topsfield. Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. 

M. Sept. 24. ISO?. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WORCESTER. JAMES T. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WORCESTER, LEIGH R. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Aug. 29, 

1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept.. 3, 1863. 
LORING, WILLIAM T. No record. 



COMPANY E 

CHARLES HOWES. Capt. Essex. Com. Dec. 10, 1862. 
M. Sept. 10, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 1st Lt. Sept. 11, 
1862. Capt. Dec. 10, 1862. Mustered in Dec. 12, 1862. 

CHARLES SANDERS. 1st Lt. Salem. Com. Dec. 10, 1862. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 99 

M. Sept. 19, 18G2. Resigned June 20, 18G3. 2nd Lt 

Sept. 11. 18C2. 1st l.t. Dec. 10, 1SG2. Mustered in 

Dec. 12, 1SG2. 
JOHN F. FORD. 1st Lt. Salem. Com. July 24, 18G2. Enl. 

Aug. 17, 18G2. M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 

Sergt. 2nd Lt. May 9, 18G3. Mustered June 23, 1863. 

1st Lt. July 24, 18G3. Mustered July 24, 1SG3. 
CHARLES J. LEE. 2nd Lt. Salem. Com. Dec. 10, 1862. 

Enl. Aug. J8, 1RG2. M. Sept. 19, 1862. Resigned Mar. 

7, 18G3. Sergt. 2nd Lt. Dec. 10, 1862. 
GEORGE WILEY. 2nd Lt. Salem. Com. July 24, 1863. 

Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. M. Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 

1863. Priv. Sergt. June 22, 1863. 2nd Lt. July 24. 1863. 

Mustered .Tuly 24, 1863. 
SAMUEL W. LARRABEB. 1st Sergt. Salem. Enl. Aug. 

18, 1S62. M. Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHARLES C. HOYT. Sergt. Salem. Enl. Sept. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Detailed at 

Brig. Comm. from Feb. 1, 18G3. 
THOMAS E. JEWETT. Sergt. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FRANCIS GILBERT MEARS. Sergt. Essex. Enl. Aug. 

27, 1862. M. Sept. 19, 1862. Died June 21, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
CHARLES MARSTON. Sergt. Essex. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. June 23, 

1SG3. 
WILLIAM DANIELS. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Aug. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JAMES WALSH. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JAMES F. NELSON. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SAMUEL HOAR. Corpl. Concord, Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOSEPH N. LARRABEE. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LEONARD BURNHAM. Corpl. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



100 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

CHARLES BROWN. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1S62. 

M. Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
AARON LOW. Corpl. Essex. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. M. Sept 

19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ALBEE, JAMES H. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Oct. 21, 

18G2. M. Oct. 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ANDREWS, ISRAEL F. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ANDREWS, LYMAN B. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BONSLEY, THEOPHILUS S. Pris'. Salem. Enl. Sept. 14, 

1862. M. Sept. 19. 1862. Killed June 12, 1863, at Port 

Hudson, La. 
BROWN, THOMAS. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Post Baker since 

Feb. 12, 1863. 
BURNHAM, ALBERT F. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 30, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BURNHAM, GEORGE F. Priv. Essex. Enl. Oct 8, 1862. 

M. Oct. 8, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
BURNHAM, HORACE. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept 8, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1S62. Discharged June 19, 1863, disability, 

at New Orleans, La. 
BURNHAM, IRA F. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BURNHAM, LAMONT G. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept 8, 1862. 

M. Sept 19, 1SC2. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
BURNHAM, LEWIS. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept. 8. 1862. M. 

Sept 19, 1.S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CALLAGHAN MAURICE. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 

1862. M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
CALLAHAN, DANIEL. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
CALLAHAN, JOHN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov. 14, 1862. M. 

Nov. 14, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
CHASE JOHN R. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. M. 

Sept 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COGGIN, THOMAS. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 101 

OOLWELL, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
COUCtHLIN, PATRICK. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Oct 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1. 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CRAFTS, FRANKLIN. Priv. Essex. Enl. Oct. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 7, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CRAFTS, ROBERT. JR. Priv. Essex. Enl. Oct. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 7, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CRAIG, AERAM D. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Oct. 23, 1862. Deserted Oct. 21, 1862. 
CROCKETT, CHARLES P. Priv. Essex Enl. Sept. 3, 

1R62. M. Sept. 19, 1862. Died May 6, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
CROSS, GEORGE. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 10, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CROWELL, BENJAMIN. Priv. Lynnfield. Enl. Oct, 7, 

1862. M. Oct. 7, 1S62. Killed May 21, 1863, in action 

before Port Hudson, La. 
DANIELS, EDWARD A. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 27, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 18'52. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
DANIELS, JOHN B. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 27, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19. 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOCKHAM, WILLIAM L. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 27, 

18G2. M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOUGLASS, ALBERT. Priv. Saiem. Enl. Sept. 14, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19. 1862. Transferred Mar. 7, 1863, to 2nd R. 

I. Cav. 
DUGGAN, MORTY. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 23, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1862. Absent sick at Essex when the reg't was 

mustered out. 
EATON, CHARLES. Priv. Wenham. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 24. 1862. Deserted Oct. 25, 1862. 
FARLEY, GEORGE E. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FLAKEFIELD, JOHN, JR. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 

1862. M. Sept. 19, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
POOTE, GEORGE F. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. Discharged Jan. 1, 1863, disability, 

at N. Y. 



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FORD, JEREMIAH L. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 18, 18G2. 

M. Sopt. 19, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
FRANCIS, JOSEPH. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. in, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
GILDEROY, MICHAEL. Priv. Wenham. Enl. Oct. 24, 

18G2. M. Oct. 24, 1862. Deserted Oct. 2G, 18G2. 
GRAY. GEORGE A. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 15, 1862. 

M. Sept. 10, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
GRIFFIN, THOMAS J. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 18<32. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
HANSON. GEORGE. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. Deserted Oct. 1, 1SG2. 
HARDY, ALPFIONSO M. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1S62. Discharged Oct. 1, 18G2, disability. 
HAYDEN, LUTHER. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Band First 

Division, First Brigade. 
HAZFLTON, ANDREW. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. Discharged May 11, 18G3, disability. 
HINDS, RICHARD. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
INGALLS, JOHN D. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 18G2. M. 

Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
JACKSON, ANDREW. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 21, 1862. 

M. Sept. 21, 1862. Deserted Nov. 28, 1862. 
JACQUES, JOSEPH. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1SG2. Deserted Sept. 25, 1SC2. 
JEFFREY, WILLIAM F. Priv, Salem. Enl. Aug. 25. 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOYCE, MICHAEL. Priv. Danvers. Enl. Oct. 13, 1862. 

M. Oct. 13. 1S62. Deserted Dec. 25, 1862. 
KELLEHER, JAMES B. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept. 4, 1862. 

M. Sept. 10, 1J^G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KENNEDY, MICHAEL. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 18G2. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. Transferred Mar. 7, 1863, to 2nd R. I. 

Cav. 
KIMBALL, JAMES B. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 24, 1SG2. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Hosp. Cook 

eince Jan. 1, 1863. 



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103 



LARR'^BEE, WARREN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25. 1862 
M." Sept. 19, lSfi2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Detailed at 
Brig. Comm. since Feb. 3, 1863, 
LEAR. WILLIAM S. Priv. Marblehead. Enl. Aug. 20. 

18G2. M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
lynch! PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov. 17, 1862. 

M. Nov. 17, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863, 
LYONS, JAMES. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov, 14. 1862. M. 

Nov. 14, 1862. Deserted Nov. 14, 1862. 
MAHONEY, THOMAS. Priv. Essex. Enl, Aug. 27, 1862, 

M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MATTHEWS, VINCENT. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
McCABE, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862, 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
McEACHEN, JOHN. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1«62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MITCHELL, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. EnL Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORSE, GEORGE W. Priv, Lawrence. Enl. Aug, 19. 

1862. M. Sept. 19, 1852, M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MORTON. CHARLES, Priv. Salem, Enl. Nov. 14, 1862. 

M. Nov. 14, 1862. Deserted Nov. 14, 1862. 
MURPHY, JOHN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M- 

Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1S63. 
MURPHY. MICHAEL. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
MURPHY. PETER. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. M, 

Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
NOLAN. THOMAS. Priv. Methuen. Enl. Dec. 6, 1862. 

M. Dec. 6, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
OSGOOD. ELERIDGE B. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Aug. 30. 
1862. M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Q. M. 
Clerk Hdqts. 4th reg't 9 mos.; transferred to E, 48th 
reg't Dec. 11, 1862. 
PEABODY JEREMIAH. Priv. Middleton. Enl. Aug. 19, 
1862. M. Sept. 19, 1862. Died Jan. 10. 1863. on board 
U. S. S. Constellation, 



104 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

POWERS, STEPHEN A. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 13, 1862. 

M. Oct. 14, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PRERT, ROBERT. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 28, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. Ambulance 

driver since Feb., 1863, 
PROCTOR, CHARI.es W. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept. 8, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
PROCTOR, JOSEPH, .IR. Priv. Essex. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RIGGS, SOLOMON A. Priv. Essex. Enl. Aug. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RONAN, WILLIAM H. Priv. Salem. EnL Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SCULLEY, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 19. 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SHAW. WALTER G. C. C. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 13, 

13G2. M. Oct. 14, 18C2. Absent sick in Salem when the 

reg't was mustered out. 
SMITH, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19. 1SG2. Died in service Dec. 10. 1862. at Salem, 

Mass. 
SOUTHWICK. EDWARD. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1802. M. Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
STACY, PETER. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 18G3. 
STIMPSON. EDWARD S. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 18, 

1862. M. Sept. 19. 1SC2. Transferred to Mass. InL 
SWEENEY. WILLIAM. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
SYMONDS, JOSEPH P. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov. 19, 1862. 

M. Nov. 19. 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
VERY. EPHRAIM P. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
VENO, FELIX. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WALTON, JOSEPH A. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. Absent sick at Salem when the reg't 

was mustered out 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 105 

WILEY. MOSES J. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19. 1<SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WILLEY. MARK L. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 30, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 18G2. Discharged Dec. 24, 1802, disability. 
WILLIAMS, MARTIN V. Priv. Salem. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. Wounded in 

action May 27, 1S63, at Port Hudson, La. 
WIPPICH, JOHN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Sept. 19, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 



COMPANY F 

EDGAR J. SHERMAN. Capt. Lawrence. Com. Nov, 1, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
FRANCIS M. SMITH. 1st Lt. Lynn. Cora. Nov. 1, 1862. 

Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. M, Sept. 16, 1862. Priv Co. A until 

Nov. 1, 1862. Promoted Dec. 26, 1862, to Capt. of Co. I. 
NICHOLAS N. NOYES. 1st Lt. Amesbury. Com. Dec. 

29. 1862. Enl. Aug. 18, 1862. M. Sept. 23, 1862. M. O. 

Sept. 3, 1863. Priv. Co. C. 2nd Lt. Nov. 1, 1862. 1st 

Lt. Dec. 29, 1862 
JOHN G. TEWKSBURY. 2nd Lt. Amesbury. Com. Dec. 

29. 1862. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. M. Oct. 1. 1862. Priv. Co. 

C. 1st Sergt. Co. F Dec. 12, 1862. 2nd Lt. Dec. 29, 

1S63. Resigned Mar. 7, 1863. 
SERVINGTON S. BURNETT. 2nd Lt. Salem. Com. May 

4, 1803. Enl. Nov. 3. 1862. M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept. 

3, 1863. 1st Sergt. 2nd Lt. May 4, 1863. Absent sick 

when the reg't was mustered out. 
CHARLES H. l^ITTLEFIELD. 1st Sergt. Lawrence. Enl. 

Oct. G. 1862. M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Sergt. 1st Sergt. June 24, 1863. 
CHARLES H. STICKNEY. Sergt. Lynn. Enl. Oct. 27, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Absent sick at New Orleans, 

La., when the reg't was mustered out. Discharged 

Sept. 3, 18G3, as Priv. 



106 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

JOEL F. STONE. Sergt. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 28. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. Corpl. Sergt 

May ?,7, 18G3. Wounded May 27, 18G3, in charge on 

Port Hudson, La. 
CHARLES L. RAMSELL. Sergt. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 25, 

18G2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Corpl. 

Sergt. June 24. 1863. 
AUSTIN S. SMITH. Sergt. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 26. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
JOHN C. COLBY. Corpl. Salisbury. Enl. Nov. 11. 1862. 

M. Nov. 11, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
EDWARD F. CASWELL. Corpl. Wenham. Enl. Oct. 9, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Discharged as Corpl. May 27, 

18G3, to re-enlist in 2nd Vt. Battery. 
ALFRED MULLINS. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15. 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 18G3. 
DAVID C. MORRILL. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Nov. 11, 

1SG2. M. Nov. 11. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Wounded 

May 27, 1863, in charge on Port Hudson. La. 
ALFRED TRPJFETHEEN. Corpl. Newburyport. Enl. Dec, 

19, 1862. M. Dec. 20. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
THOMAS T. HINES. Corpl. Salem. Enl. Oct. 6. 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Corpl. May 27. 1863. 
CHARLES E. KENT. Musician. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 6, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
WILLIAM H. WALSH. Musician. Salem. Enl. Oct 27, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
ABBOTT, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21. 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
BARRY, THOMAS. Priv Lawience. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BATEMAN, JOSEPH. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 27. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BESSOM, NICHOLAS. Priv. Marblehead. Enl. Oct. 30, 

1SG2. M Nov. 3. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BIRCH, THOMAS. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 10. 1S62. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 
BLANCHARD, JAMES P., JR. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Oct 

10, 18G2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 107 

BLYTH. JONATHAN. Priv, Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, lf<62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. Wounded May 

27, 18G3, in charge on Port Hudson, La. 
BOLAND. EDWARD. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 20, 

18n2. M. Nov. 3, 1S62. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
BOOCOCK, GEORGE. Priv. Amesbury. Enl, Oct. 10, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BREWSTER, WILLIAM. Priv. Boston. P^nl. Oct. 21. 

18G2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 7, 1862. 
BROVVN, CHARLES S. Priv. Lawrence. Enl, Nov. 7, 

1862. M. Nov. 7, 1862, Absent sick when the reg't 

was mustered out, 
BROWNLEE, JAMES, Priv. Lynn. Enl. Oct, 21, 1862, 

M. Nov, 3. 1862, M. O, Sept. 3, 1863, Wounded May 

27, 1863, in charge on Port Hudson, La. 
BURKE, PATRICK. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. ?., 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded June 

14, 1S63, at Port Hudson, La. 
BURNHAM, FREDERICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct, 21, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 7, 1862, 
BURNS, JAMES H. Priv. Boston, Enl. Oct, 20, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 8, 1862. 
CAFFREY, DANIEL. Priv. Lawrence. Enl, Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
CAMPBELL, JAMES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 20, 

18G2. M. Dec. 20, 18C2. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
CHASE, GEORGE E. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 22, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863, 
CLARK, CHARLES. Priv. Groton. Enl. Nov. 3, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 1862. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862, 
CLINTON, DANIEL. Priv. Newton. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1SG2. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 
COLLINS, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 12, 1862. M. 

Nov. 12, 1862. Deserted Dec. 12, 1862. 
CORLISS, WILLIAM H. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 6, 

18G2. M. Nov. 3. 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CROSBY, JAMES C. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov, 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 3, 1862. 



108 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

CUSICK, THOMAS. Priv. Lynn. Enl. Nov. 3, 18G2. M. 

Nov. 3, 18(;2. Deserted Nov. 4, 18G2. 
DANA, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 3, 18G2. M 

Nov. 3, 1862 Deserted Nov. 4, 18G2. 
DESLi'SLE, TIMOTHY. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 21. 

18G2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 26, 18G2. 
DORAN, ROBERT. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 

1862. M. Dec. 20, 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 18G2. 
DOWLING, GEORGE. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1SG2. Deserted Nov. 21, 1862. 
DOYLE, NICHOLAS. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Oct. 27, 

1SC2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Wounded 

May 27, 1863, in charge on Port Hudson, La. 
DURGIN, DANIEL. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
EATON, CLARK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 6, 1862. 
EDGCOMB, JAMES. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 18, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ENGLESTEDT, CHARLES W. Priv. Plympton. Enl. 

Nov. 12, 1862. M. Nov. 12. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FARROW, ROBERT. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 28, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. '3, 18G3. 
FERNANDEZ, MIQUEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 4. 1862. 
FLOOD, JOHN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 9, 1862. M. Nov. 

3, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FOSTER, SOLOMON L. Priv. Ipswich. Enl. Nov. 6. 1862. 

M. Nov. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FRANCIS. JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 3, 1862. M. 

Nov. 3. 1SG2. Deserted Nov. 4. 1862. 
GINGRAS. EUGENE. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 26. 1862. 
GOODWIN. EPHRAIM. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. IS. 

18G2. M. Nov. 13. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GOODWIN. SYLVESTER. Priv. So. Amesbury. Enl. Not. 

0, 1862. M. Nov. 6, 1862. Deserted Dec. 24, 1862. 
GORMAN. JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21. 1862. 
M. Nov. 3. 1862. Deserted Nov. 3. 1862. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 109 

GREEN. JOSEPH. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 23. 1862. M. 

Nov. 3. 18G2. Deserted Nov. 20, 1862. 
HALL, AARON. Priv. Maiden. Enl. Nov. 13. 1862. M. 

Nov. 13. 1S62. Died Dec. 26, 1862. in Hosp. at Boston, 

Mass. 
HARVEY. WILLIAM. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 26, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HAZELTON. AUGUSTUS. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 6. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HILEMAN, CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec 

20, 1862. M. Dec. 20, 1802. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
HILL. CHARLES P. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17. 

1862. M. Dec. 20. 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
HOLT, ALBERT E. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 6, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
HOOD. WEND ALL P. Priv. Boston; Danvers. Enl. Nov. 

7. 1862. M. Nov. 7, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HUDDELL. JOHN H. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 23. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 7, 1862. 
JOHNSON. WILLIAM. Priv. Gloucester. Enl. Nov. 12. 

1862. M. Nov. 12. 1862. Deserted Nov. 14, 1862. 
JONES. ROBERT T. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15. 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
KELLEY, JOHN W. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Nov. U, 

1S62. M. Nov. 11. 1862. Deserted Nov. 14, 1862. 
LITTLE. ARCHIBALD. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 23. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 3, 1862. 
LOOBY. JOHN. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. 13, 1862. 

M. Nov. 13, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LOPEZ, PETER. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 3, 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov 3, 1862. 
MAHONEY, MICHAEL. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 20, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded 

May 21, 1S63, in action near Port Hudson, La. 
MARSHALL, WILLIAM. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov. 11, 

1862. M. Nov. 11, 1862. Absent when the reg't was 

mustered out. 
MARTIN, MIQUEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 3. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 



110 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

McDERMOTT, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 2, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18(32. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. Sergt. Reduced 

May 27, ISfiS. 
McDOUGAL. JOHN. Priv. Salem. Enl. Nov. 7, 1862. 

M. Nov. 7, 18G2. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1SG3. Wounded May 27, 

1SG3, in charge on Port Hudson, La. 
McLEAN, JOSEPH. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Nov, 11, 

1SC2. M. Nov. 11, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
McNEIL, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 20, 1862. 

M. Dec. 20, 18G2. Deserted Dec. 24, 18G2. 
McQUAID, JOHN. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 17, 18G2. M. 

Nov. 3, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
MILON, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862, 

M, Nov. 15, 18G2. Discharged Dec. 24, 1862, by CoL 

Day. Rejected recruit. 
MOORE, ROBERT. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15. 18G2. Deserted Nov. 21, 18G2. 
MOORE, PAIRICK M. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct 24, 

18G2. M, Nov, 3. 18C2. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 
MURPHY, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 11, 1862. M, 

Nov. 11, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
MURPHY, JOHN. Priv. Wenham. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862, 

M. Nov. 3, 18C2. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 
NOONAN, PATRICK. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 16, 

18G2 M. Nov. r;, 1862. Killed May 27, 18G3, in charge 

on Port Hudson, La. 
NOYES, JOSHUA. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 6, 1862. M. 

Nov. C. 18G2. Transferred to Co. D Mar. 10, 18G3. 
CAKES, EDW fVRD T, Priv. Lawrence. Enl, Oct, 24, 1862, 

M. Nov. 3, ISGli. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
O'DONNELL, RODLICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 25, 

1802. M. Nov. 3. 1862. Deserted Nov. 5, 1862. 
ORSEY, JOHN D. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 1862, 

M. Dec. 17, 1802. Deserted Dec. 24, 1862. 
PARSHLEY, JOSEPH K. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 16, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1SG2. Died Jan. 20, 1863, at sea, on 

passage from New York to New Orleans on U. S. S. 

Constellation. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 111 

PEABODY, BENJAMIN W. Priv. Middleton. Enl. Oct 

27. 18G2. M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
PENNEY, CHARLES H. Priv. Maiden. Enl, Nov. 6, 1862. 

M. Nov. 6, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G2. 
PETTINGILL, EDWARD. Priv. Hancock, Me. Enl. Oct. 

25, 1862. M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 6, 1862. 
PICKERING, JAMPJS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 3, 1862. 
PRICE, PHIIJP. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 24, 1S62. M. 

Nov. 3. 1S62. Deserted Nov. 3, 1862. 
REARDON, GEORGE. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Oct. 27, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 1S62. Deserted Nov. 4, 1862. 
RENNS, CHARLES J. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. 3, 
186:. M. Nov. 13, 1862. Died Jan. 22, 1862, at sea, on 
passage from New York to New Orleans. 
ROACH, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 29. 1862. M. 

Nov. D, 1862. Deserted Nov. 29, 18G2. 
RODDY, EDWARD. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROGERS, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 20, 1862. 

M. Dec. 20, 1862. Deserted Dec. 24, 1862. 
ROGERS. MIAL A. Priv. Newbury. Enl. Nov. 6, 1862. 

M. Nov. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RUSH TON, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 12, 1862. 

M. Nov. 12, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 15, 1862. 
RYAN, PATRICK. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct. 29, 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted Nov. 14, 1862. 
SMITH. CHARLES. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 19, 

1.SC2. M. Dec. 19, 1862. Deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
SMITH, CHARLES O. Priv. W. Mansfield. Enl. Aug, 22, 
1S62. M. Sept. 16, 1862. Transferred Mar. 7, 1863, to 
Co. C, R. I. Cav. 
SMITH, JAMES. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 18, 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 18'J2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, JOHN. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. M. 

Nov. S, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
STORY, WILLIAM. Priv. Gloucester. Enl. Nov. 12, 1862. 
M. Nov. 12, 1862. Deserted, Dec. 15, 1862. 



112 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

SULLIVAN, EUGENE. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Oct. 17, 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
SULLIVAN, PATRICK. Priv. Newburyport. Enl. Dec. 17, 

tSG2. M. Dec. 17, 1802. Deserted Dec. 20, 18G2. 
SULLIVAN, SIMON. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct. 12, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1.SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
SYLVIA, John. Priv. Gloucester. Enl. Nov. 6, 1862. M. 

Nov. 6, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 7, 1SG2. 
TEWKSBURY, EZEKIEL F. Priv. Amesbury. Enl. Oct 

4, 1Sd2. M. Nov. 3, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TIBBETS, CALVIN E. Priv. Salisbury. Enl. Oct. 7. 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TOWNER, WALTER R. C. Priv. Maiden. Enl. Oct 24. 

1862. M. Nov. 3, 18C2. Died Aug. 24, 1863, in Hosp. in 

Cleveland, O. WouDded in action July 13, 1863, Don- 

aldsonville. La. 
TUCKER, JOHN H. Priv. Salem. Enl. Oct 16, 1862. M. 

Nov. 3, 1802. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
VAUGHAN. JOHN. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct 20, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3. 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
WEBB, SAMUEL. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Oct 27, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
WELCH, JOHN. Priv. Newburyport Enl. Dec. 17, 1862. 

M. Dec. 20, 1862. Deserted Dec. 23, 1862. 
WELCH, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct 24, 1862. 

M. Nov. ?,, 1862. Deserted Nov. 5, 1862. 
WILEY, CHARLES V. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Oct 18, 

1802. M. Nov. 3, 18<;2. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
WILLIAMS, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Nov. 3, 1802. Deserted Nov. 5, 1862. 
WOODWARD, JAMES H. J. Priv. Newburyport Enl. 

Dec. 20, 1862. M. Dec. 20, 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 



COMPANY G 

ROBINSON N. SCHOFF. Capt. E. Salisbury. Com. Jan. 
15, 1S63. M. Sept 23, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 2nd 
Lt Co. C. Capt. Jan. 1.5, 1863. Mustered Feb. 13. 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 113 

WILLIAM E. RUDDERHAM. 1st Lt. Quincy. Com. Jan. 
15, 1863. Enl. Sept. 30, 1862. M. Oct. 1, 18(52. Priv. 
1st Sergt. 1st Lt. Jan. 15, 1863. Mustered Feb. 13. 
1863. Resigned Mar. 7, 1863. 

LEVERETT BROWN. 1st Lt. Ipswich. Com. May 16, 
1863. Enl. Aug. 29, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. 
Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. Co. D. 1st Lt. May 16. 1863. Mus- 
tered June 24. 1863. 

JOHN L. O'BRIEN. 2nd Lt. Boston. Com. Jan. 15, 1863. 
Enl. Sept. 30, 1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. Priv. 2nd Lt 
Jan. 15. 1863. Mustered Feb. 13, 1863. Resigned Mar. 

7, ises. 

WILLIAM BOYD. 2nd Lt. Quincy. Com. May 16, 1863. 

Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Sergt. 2nd Lt. May 16, 1863. Mustered June 24, 1863. 
ANDREW HARE. 1st Sergt. Melrose. Enl. Aug. 22, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HENRY TALBOT. Sergt. Quincy. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TIMOTHY CAFFEY. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Sept. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Mustered out as 

Timoth A. Caffey. 
JAMES CROWLEY. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
EDWARD TIERNEY. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HUGH DONAHUE. Corpl. Stoughton. Enl. Sept. 15, 

1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN DIXON. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Sept. 6. 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROBERT N. DAILEY. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Sept. 11, 

1862. M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN LOMBARD. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Sept. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
PATRICK BOYD. Musician. Quincy. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CHARLES H. PARKER. Musician. Boston. Enl. Aug. 24, 
1862. M. Oct. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



114 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

BURKE, JAMES. Priv. Sherburne. Enl, Aug. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
CROTTY, WILLIAM F. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
CROWLEY, JEREMIAH. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 12, 

1SC;2. M. Oct. 1, 1S62. Died July 29, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
DAILEY, MICHAEL. Priv. Rnxbury. Enl. Sept. 12, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, lbG2. Died Sept. 1, 18G3, in Hosp. at Netf 

York on the way home. 
DONOVAN, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SC3. 
DUFFY, PATRICK. Priv. Eoston. Enl. Sept. 12, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
EARLY, DENNIS. Priv. Brighton. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
ELLSWORTH, GEORGE E. Priv. Boston. Enl, Oct. 3, 

1802. M. Oct. 3, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
FLEMiNG, GARRETT. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Aug. 20, 18G2. 

M. Oct. 1, 18G2. Died July 3, 18G3, from wounds re- 
ceived at Port Hudson, La. 
FLYNN, WILLIAM. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18G2. Died May 3, 18C3, Gen'l Hosp., Baton 

Rouge, La. 
FUREY, HUGH. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 30, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
GALLAGHER, FRANCIS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept 16, 

18C2. M. Oct. 1, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GLEASON, DANIEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 11, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
HANLEY, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 11, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1. 1SG2. M O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HOG AN, JA^fES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
HURLEY. PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
KELLY MAT HEW. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 28, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 115 

KINGSLEY. RICHARD. PrJv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
LOGUE, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 18G2. M. 

Oct. 1, 1SG2. Died May 11, 18C3, in Gen'l Hosp. at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
LYONS, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 18U2. M. O. Sept. S, 1803. 
LYNCH, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
MADDEN, JEREMIAH. Priv. So. Reading. Enl. Sept. 28, 

1802. M. Oct. 1, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
MAGUIRR, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
McCARTY, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. M- 

Oct. 1, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MOICAN, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 5, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 1SC2. Discharged July 23, 1SG3, to re-enlist in 

Hdqts. Troop. 
MORRIS, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 7, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'CONNOR, JAME. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Oct. 8, 1862. M. 

Oct. 8, 1HC2. Transferred from Co. K April 27, 1863. 
O'FLAtJERTY, THOMAS P. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 16, 

18C2. M. Oct. 1, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'HEARN, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept.. 11, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
O'NEAL, JOHN T. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Aug. 20, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
RICHARDS, JOHN. Priv. Easton. Enl. Sept. 5, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
ROACH, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SHINE. MARTIN. Priv. Weymouth. Enl. Sept. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SULLIVAN, DANIEL. Priv. Boston. Elnl. Sept. 27, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 18G2. Discharged July 23, 1863, to re-enlist 

in Hdqts. Troop. 
SULLIVAN, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Aug. 25, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



116 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

SULLIVAN, MICHAEL A. P.riv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SULLIVAN, WILLIAM. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
THORNTON, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 30, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, J 862. Transferred Mar. 6, 1863, to 2nd R. I. 

Cav. 
WADE, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 28, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WARNER, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 5, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KENNEY, MICHAEL. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Sept. 30. 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. Absent without leave. 



COMPANY H 

JAMBS C. ROGERS. Capt. Chelsea. Com. Sept. 24, 1862. 
M. Sept. 2:., 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. Wounded at 
Port Hudson, La. 

PETER O. C. TRAWLEY. 1st Lt. Lowell. Com. Sept. 
24, 1862. M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

JAMES McGINNIS. 2nd Lt. Belmont. Com. Nov. 25, 1862. 
Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. M. Oct. 20, 1S62. Priv. 2nd Lt 
Nov. 25, 1862. Mustered Dec. 20, 1862. Died June 21, 
1863, in Hosp., Baton Rouge, La., from wounds received 
in action. 

THOMAS Mclaughlin. 1st Sergt. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 21, 
1862. M. Oct. 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

MAURICE HEALY. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. 
M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Jan. 28, 1863. 

JOHN W. LAYS. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. M. 
Oct. 31, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

RICHARD WARD. Sergt. Lowell. Enl. Oct 10, 1862. 
M. Oct. 20, 1862. Absent in Hosp. in New York when 
the reg't was mustered out, suffering from wounds re- 
ceived at Port Hudson, La. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 117 

JAMES STEAD. Serst. Lawrence. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 
M. Sept. 25, 1862. Died June 4, 1863, at Reg't Hosp., 
Baton Rouge, La., of wounds received at Port Hud- 
son, La. 
ROBERT LEACH. Sergt. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. M. 

Oct. 6, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PATRICK McCarthy. Sergt. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 
M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. Sergt. 
July 1, 18W3. 
TIMOTHY LAHIFFB. Corpl. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 
M. Sept. 25, 1862. Died June 3, 1863, in Hosp., Baton 
Rouge, La., of wounds received in action. 
WILLLAM SHEEHAN. Corpl. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 25, 
1S62. M. Sept. 25, 1S62. Arrested as witness. Absent 
in Buffalo, N. Y., when the reg't was mustered out. 
JAMES GILDP:A. Corpl. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1S62. M. O. Sept. ?>, 1863. 
WIIiLIAM HALL. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Sept. 27, 1862. 

M. Sept. 27, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

DANIEL DESMOND. Corpl. So. Maiden. Enl. Sept. 22, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Taken 

prisoner in battle of Donaldsonville, La., July 13, 1862. 

MICHAEL FARLEY. Corpl. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JAMES RYAN. Corpl. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 17, 1862. M- 

Sept, 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. , 
PATRICK O'CONNOR. Corpl. Belmont. Enl. Sept 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 18^.2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN WILKINS, 2nd. Musician. Boston. Enl. Sept. 1, 
1862. M. Sept. 25, 1862. Discharged Mar. 28, 1863, to 
re-enlist in 2nd R. I. Cav. 
JOHN KEENAN. Musician. So. Andover. Enl. Sept. 19, 

18C2. M. Sept. 25, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
AHERN, MAURICE. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
AHERN, STEPHEN. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 20, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Oct. 2, 1862. 
BANAN, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 
M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Oct. 27, 1862. 



118 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

BATES, NICHOLAS. Priv. Taunton. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Oct. ?.l. 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
BEARY, THOMAS P. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 19, 18G2. 

M. Sept. 25, 18C2. Deserted Oct. 8, 18C2. 
BOYLE, .JOHN. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 13, 18G2. M. Oct. 

17, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
BRADLEY, JOHN. Priv. Marblehead. Enl. Sept. 22, 18C2. 

M. Sept. 25. 18fi2. M. O. Sept. 2, 1SC3. 
BRANNON, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 18(;2. M. O. Sept. C, 1S63. 
BROPHY, JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
BROWN, JOHN. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. M. 

Oct. 1, 1862. Deserted Oct. 6, 1862. 
BROWN, PHILIP. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
BROWN, RUP^US F. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 22. 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. S, ISC:;:. 
BRYANT, GEORGE. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BURGESS. JOSEPH. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Sept. 19, 1S62. 

M. Sept. 25. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
BURNS, MICHAEL. Priv. Lynn. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. M. 

Oct. 20, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
BURNS, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. Arrested as witness and absent in 

Buffalo. N. Y., when the reg't was mustered out. 
CAHILL. JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 12, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
CALLAGHAN, CHARLES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 31. 

1862. M. Oct. 31, 1862. Deserted Dec. 9, 1862. 
CAMPBELL, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 25. 

18G2. M. Sept. 25, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CLARK, MICHAEL. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23. 1862. 

M. Sept. 25. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COLLINS, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COYLE, JOHN. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. M. 

Sept. 2b, 1862. Deserted Oct. 1, 1862. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 119 

CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, 1st. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 18, 

1SG2. M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. Died July 15, 18G3, in Reg't 

Hosp., Baton Rouge, La. 
CUNNINGHAM, JOiTN, 2nd. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 

IS, 1862. M. Sept. 25. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN C. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 6, 

1862. M. Sept 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DALEY, MATITEW. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 19, 18C2. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DEVINE, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 7, 18G2. 

M. Oct. 7, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOHERTY, JAMES. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
DUNNEY, PATRICK. Priv. So. Danvers. Enl. Sept. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FENTON, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 7, 1862. M. 

Oct. 7, 1SG2 M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FINNEGAN, WILLIAM. Priv. I>owell. Enl. Oct. 13. 

1862. M. Oct. 31, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FLOOD, WILLIAM. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 12, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FOLEY, WILLIAM J. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
FRAWLEY. MICHAEL. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 22, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
FRAZER, HUGH. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 16. 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GALLAGHER. EDWARD. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 17, 

1862. M. Oct. 17, 1862. Shot and killed by Provost 

Marshal at Camp Meigs, Readville, Mass. 
GALOGLY JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 13, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1^62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GIBBONS, JOSEPH. Priv. Saugus. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
GLEASON, MATHEW R. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 22, 

1SC2. M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Oct. 21. 1862. Enl. 

Nov. 26, 1862, in Co. H, 40th reg't as John Carroll. Re- 
taken from the 49th reg't at Baton Rouge, La., April 

1, 1863. 



120 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

GORMAN, JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 9, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
GRIFFIN, MICHAEL. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 17, 1862. 

M. Oct. 17, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
HARNEY, RICHARD. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept.- 13, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 18G2. Deserted Oct. 27, 1SG2. 
HARPER, WILLIAM. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 18, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25. 1SG2. Deserted Oct. IG, 18G2. 
HARRIMAN, NOAH G. Priv. Saugus. Enl. Sept. 1, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1SG3. Sergt. Reduced 

July 1, 1863, for cowardice. 
HAWKINS, PATRICK. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 23, 

1802. M. Sept. 25, 1S62. Deserted Nov. 20, 1802. 
HAYDEN, THOMAS. Priv. Dracut. Enl. Oct. 13, 1862. 

M. Oct. 17, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1363. Taken prisoner 

at battle of Donaldsonville, I^a. • 
HAYES, PETER. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 25, J 862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1862. Arrested as a deserter June 2, 1863, in 

Boston. Released to dutj' July 10, 1863, at Fort Inde- 
pendence. 
HOY, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1862. Left sick IIosp., New York, Dec. 28, 

1862. Never joined the reg't or officially heard from. 
JOHNSON, JOSEPH. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SC2. Deserted Oct. 1, 18G2. 
KANE. RICHARD. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
KELLY, JOHN. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 12, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25. 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KELLY, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 31, 1862. Deserted Dec. 27, 18G2. 
KEARNS, DANIEL. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 22, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. Deserted Oct. 6, 1862. 
LANN.^N. JAMES. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. Deserted Oct. 27, 1862. 
LAWLER, MARTIN. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 23. 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. Deserted Nov. 5, 1862. 
LEACH, JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept 25, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 121 

LEHAM, DENNIS. Priv. Canton. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. 

M. Sept. 2.5, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
McCAULEY, PETER. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1803. 
Mccarty, JOHN. Prlv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 9, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1862. Deserted Nov. IG, 18G2. 
McMANUS, PATRICK. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Sept. 25, 

18C2. M. Sept. 25, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MONAGHAN, MAURICE. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MURPHY, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 31, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MURPHY, WILLIAM A. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 19. 

ISG.?. M. Sept. 25, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
MURRAY, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. Died Aug. 9, 18G3, at Baton Rouge, 

La., of wounds received in battle of Donaldsonville, 

La., July 33, 18G3. 
NOONAN, DENNIS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1862. Absent when the reg't was mus- 
tered out, and suffering from wounds received at Port 

Hudson, La. 
NOONAN, MICHAEL. Priv. Burlington. Enl. Sept. 19, 

18f2. M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Oct. 21, 1862. 
O'BRIEN, JOHN. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 38, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
O'CONNELL, JA.MES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 6, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'CONNELL, PATRICK. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Sept. 19. 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'NEIL, JOHN. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 17, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PARKER, ALEXANDER. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Sept. 23, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
POWERS, WILLIAM. Priv. Winchendon. Enl. Sept. 24, 

18G2. M. Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
QUIGLEY, JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



122 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

RILEY, GEORGE. Priv. Boston Enl. Oct. 6, 1862. M. 

Oct. (.. 1!SG2. Deserted Oct. G, 18C2. 
RIT.TOY, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3. 18C3. 
8KELLEY, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SLY^E, EDWARD. Friv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1S62. 

M. Sept. 25. 18G2. M. O. Sept. 2, 1863. 
SMITH, CHARLES. Priv. Belmont. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. 

M. Oct. 1, 1862. Deserted Oct. 21, 1862. 
SPEAR, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 17, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 18f)2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
SULLIVAN, DANIEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 25, 1862. 

M. Sept. 25, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
TAGGART, WILLIAM. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Sept. 25, 

1862. M. Sept. 25, 18G2. Died Aug. 29, 1863, in Roxbury, 

Mass., after the reg't returned home. 
TIGHE, WILLIAM. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 31, 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
TILTON. JAMES L. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 31, 1862. Killed Aug. 19, 1863, near Mattoon, 

111., by being thrown from railroad car on the way 

home. 
TULLY, HUGH. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. M. 

Sept. 25, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
WALSH, JAMES. Priv. Billerica. Enl. Oct. 15. 1862. M. 

Oct. 31, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WHELAN, PATRICK. Priv. Chelsea; Lowell. Enl. Sept 

17, 1862. M. Sept. 25, 1862. Deserted Oct. 28, 1862. 
WILLIAMS, .JOHN, 1st. Priv. Lynn. Enl. Oct. 23, 1862. 

M. Oct. 31. 1862. Deserted Oct. 28. 1862. 



COMPANY I 

MICHAEL C. MAGUIRE. Capt. Boston. Com. Nov. 13, 
18C2. M. Nov. 26, 1862. Was Com. Capt. in E5th reg't 
9 months. Reg't was disbanded and the men trans- 
ferred and discharged Dec. 22, 1862, by Gov. Andrew. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 123 

FRANCIS M. SMITH. Capt. Lynn. Com. Dec. 2G, 1862. 

Enl. Aug. 22, 18G2. M. Sept. 16, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3. 

1863. Priv. Co. A. 1st Lt. Co. F, Nov. 1, 1802. Capt. 

Dec. 26, 1S62. 
JOHN READE. 1st Lt. Milford. Com. Nov. 13, 1862. M. 

Nov. 29, 1862. Was Com. 1st I-t. in the 55th reg't 9 

months. Regiment disbanded and men transferred to 

the 48th reg't. Resigned and discharged Mar. 7, 18G3. 
JOHN W. RICKER. 1st Lt, Newburyport. Com. May 8. 

1863. Enl. Sept. 19, 1862. M. Sept. 22, 1862. M. O. Sept. 

3, 1863. Priv. Co. A. Sergt. Dec. 8, 1862, 1st Lt. May 

8, 1863. Wounded May 27, 1863, at Port Hudson, La. 

and lost his right leg. 

GEORGE F. WAGNER. 2nd Lt. Boston. Com. Nov. 13. 
ISeJ. M. Nov. 35, 1862. Com. 2nd Lt. in 55th reg't 9 
months, which Avas disbanded and men transferred to 
the 4Rth reg't. Discharged by G. O. No. 1288, Mass., 
I'ec. 22, 1862. 

WILLIAM J. HARTWELL. 2nd Lt. Dedham. Com. Dec. 
26. 1862. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. 1st Sergt. 
2nd Lt. Dec. 26, 1862. Resigned and discharged Mar. 
7, 1863. 

JAMES BASSETT. 2nd Lt. Lowell. Com. May 8, 1863. 
Enl. Nov. 15, 1SC2. M. Nov. 15, 1862. 1st Sergt. 2nd 
Lt. May 8, 1863. Mustered June 24, 1863. Taken pris- 
oner at battle of Donaldsonville, La., July 13, 1863. 

THOMAS W. HERRICK. 1st Sergt. Boston. Enl. Oct. 5, 
1862. M. Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged July 23, 1863. to 
re-enlist in Hdqts. Troop, Dept. of the Gulf. Dis- 
charged Mar. 19, 1864, for promotion 2nd Lt. Co. I, 
78th U. S. Colored Troop. 

TERENCE, WADE. 1st Sergt. Cambridge. Enl. Nov. 9. 
1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Sergt. 
1st Sergt. July 1, 1863. 

JAMES NOLAN. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Aug. 23, 1862. M. 
Oct 18, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

MICHAEL KILDUFP. Sergt. Roxbury. Enl. Oct. 16. 
lS»^-.2. M. Oct. 18, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 



124 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

JOHN H. RAYMOND. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Oct. 22, 1862. 

M. Oct. 22, 1SC2. Transferred June 23, 18G3, to Hdtqs. 

Troop, Dept. of the Gulf. 
JOHN MORRIS. Sergt. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18, 1S02. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. Sergt. May 1, 18G3. 
TIMOTHY CliRTIN. Sergt. Quincy. Enl. Oct. 8, 1862. 

M. Oct. 8, 1862. Corpl. Sergt. July 1, 1863. Wounded 

May 27, 1863, at Port Hudson, La. Absent sick when 

the reg't was mustered out. Honorably discharged 

Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
HERMAN MANPHELT. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Oct. 21, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. Corpl. Mar. 1, 1863. 
MATHEW McDERMOTT. Corpl. Charlestown. Enl. Oct 

4, 18G2. M. Oct. 8, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. 

May 1, 1SG3. 
GEORGE WAGNER. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. lii, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. May 1, 

1863. 
JOHN FREEL. Corpl. So. Braintree. Enl. Oct. 10. 1862. 

M. Oct. IS, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. May 1, 1863. 
THOMAS HARPER. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M Oct. 29. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. July 1, 1863. 
JAMES COLWELL. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. July 1, 1863. 
JOSEPH SEMPLE. Corpl. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. July 1, 1863. 
JAMES REILLY. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Sept. 27, 3862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Corpl. July 1, 1863. 
ROBERT BURNS. Musician. Boston. Enl. Oct. 11, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18. 1862. Died April 18, 1863. at Baton Rouge, 

La. 
JOHN SLATTERY. Musician. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Nov. 15. 18G2. Transferred Mar. 6, 1863, to 

2nd R. I. Cav. 
BAILEY, JAMES E. Priv. Cambridge. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 21, 1862. 
BARNETT, RICHARD. Priv. Dedham. Enl. Nov. 8. 

18C2. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 24, 18G2. 
BELMONT, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov 7. 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 18C2. Deserted Dec. 18, 1862. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 125 

BOYD, THOMAS. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 5, 18G2. 
BROOD, HENRY. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 8, 18G2. 

M. Nov, 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 18, 1862. 
BROOKS, FREDERICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 18, 18G2. 

M. Oct. 18, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BROV/N, DAVID. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 22, 1862. 
BUTLER, PATRICK. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. IS, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CALLAHAN, MICHAEL. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 

4, 1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Nov. 24, 1862. 
COLLINS, PATRICK. Priv. Woburn. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. 

M. Nov. 16, 1862. Left sick hospital. Cleveland, O., en 

route home. Absent when the reg't was mustered out. 
COY, MICHAEL. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged June 26, 1863, to re-enlist. 

Enl. and mustered into Co. B, Hdqts. Troop, Dept of 

the Gulf, July 25, 1863. At Port Hudson, La., for one 

year. Discharged Nov. 24, 1863, by reason of civil ar- 
rest and conviction. 
CROAKER, MICHAEL. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Oct. 4, 

1862. M. Oct. IS, 1862. Deserted Dec. 4, 1862. 
CRONIN, LAWRENCE. Priv. Gardner. Enl. Nov. 4, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1S62. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DARMODY, .TAMES. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 11. 

1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 7, 1862. 
DAVIS, GEORGE W. Priv. Cambridge. Enl. Nov. 11. 

1862. M. Nov. 15. 1862. Deserted Dec. 18, 1862. 
DONOVAN, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 7, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 6, 1862. 
DOWNEY, PATRICK. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Sept. 8, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 1862. Absent sick when the reg't was mus- 
tered out. 
DOYLE, DAVID. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 11, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15. 1862. Deserted Dec. 4. 1862. 
DOYLE, EDWARD. Priv. Chelsea. Enl. Oct. 2, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18, 1862. Deserted Dec. 4, 1862. 



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PLOIIENCE, JOHN. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 10, 

18(52. M. Nov. 15, 18C2. Transferred Mar. '3, 18G3, to 

2nd R. I. Cav. 
GIBBONS, JOHN. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 12, 1SG2. 

M. Nov. 15, 1SG2. Deserted Dec. 20, isr.2. 
GIBBONS, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell; Charlestown. Enl. 

Nov. 12, 1802. M. Nov. 15, 1S(52. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 

Received $200 bounty from Charlestown Nov. 29, 18G2, 

at camp. 
GILLESPIE, PETER. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 18G2. Deserted Dec. 4, 1862. 
GLENNON, WILLIAM. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Oct. 31, 1862. 

M. Oct. 31, 1802. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HARRIS, ALBERT C. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 12, 

18(12. M. Nov. 15, 1SG2. Deserted Dec. 23, 18G2. 
HOFFMAN, CHARLES. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 10, 

18G2. M. Nov. 15, 18G2. Deserted Dec. 27, 1SG2. 
HOLLAND, WILLIAM A. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1SG2. M. Nov. 15, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18G3. 
HOMER, JOHN. Priv. Milford. Enl. Nov. 10, 18G2. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 16, 1862. 
HURLEY. JEREMIAH. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 

10, 1862. M. Nov. 15, 18C2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
HUTCHINS, NOYER P. Priv. New Bedford. Enl. Nov. 

10. 1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 12, 1862. 
HYL.AND, JOSEPH. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 18, 1862. 
KEAN, MICHAEL. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Sept. 24, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Name not on 

muster in roll. 
KRON, HENRY. Priv, Boston. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18. 1862. Transferred June 26, 1863, to Co. B, 

Hdqts. Troop, Dept. of the Gulf. 
KRONSE, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 186?. Deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
LEWIS, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. M. Oct. 

21, 1862. Transferred June 26, 1863, to Co. B, Hdqts. 

Troop. Dept of the Gulf. 
LONG. JOSEPH. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M, 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 



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LORIGAN, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. IS, lSn2. M. 0. Sept. 3, 1SG3. 
LYONS, JOHN. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 18C2 M. 

Nov. 15, lSfi2. Died April 11, 18G3, at Baton Rouge, La. 
Mccarty, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 18G2. 

M. Nov. 1.0, 1SG2. Deserted Dec. 21, 18G2. 
McLURE, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. If), 1SG2. Deserted Dec. 15, 18G2. 
McDonald, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 15, 1862. 

M. Sept. 30, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. Not on muster 

In roll. Wounded May 27, 1SC3, at Port Hudson, La. 
McDonald, MICHAEL. Prlv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. IS, 18G2. Deserted. Held by civil authorities 

and never rejoined the reg't. 
McHENCH, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
MEHEGAN, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 4, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1SC2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MELIA, EDWARD. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18, 18G2. Deserted Nov. 10, 1862. 
MOREY, DANIEL C. Priv. New Bedford. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Transferred June 26, 1863, to Co. 

B, Hdqts. Troop, Dept. of the Gulf. 
MORRISON, CHARLES E.. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 1, 1862. 
MURPHY, JAMES. Priv. Charlestown. Enl. Oct. 10, 

1862. M. Oct. 10, 1862. Never rejoined the reg't. Held 

by civil authorities during term of service. 
NELSON, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 4, 1862. 
NEWTON, LEVI L. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. M. 

Oct. 18, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'BRIEN, CORNELIUS A. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 9. 

lSf'2. M. Oct. IS, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'BRIEN, DENNIS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
PARKER, JAMES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
FT HUP, AUGITST. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. M. 

Oct. 21, 1862. Transferred to 2nd R. I. Cav. 



128 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

ROBERTSON, JAMES G. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. IS, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RONAN, CAR].. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 18G2. M. 

Nov. 15, 1SG2. Deserted Nov. 30, 1862. 
ROSS, WfLLIAM. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 7. 1862. 
RUSSELL, MITCHELL. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oci. 18, 1862. Died June 19, 1863. at New Orleans, 

La. 
SANTRY, ARTHUR. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Nov. 6, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded July 

13, 1SG3, at battle of Donaldsonville, La. 
SCHMIDT, WILLIAM P. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862 Deserted Nov. 29, 1862. 
SHEA, TIMOTHY. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 5, 1862. 
SHORT, CHARLES. Priv. Fall River. Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged Dec. 30, 1862, disability. 
SIMMS, WILLIAM. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
SLATTERY, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1.5, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, JOHN, 1st. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 7, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15. 1862. Deserted Dec. 10, 1862. 
SMITH, JOHN, 2nd. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, JOHN, 3rd. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Nov. 28, 1862. 
SMITH, LEWIS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Nov 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 8, 1862. 
SMITH, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 12, 1862. 
STODDER, JOSEPH P. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Wounded May 27, 

1863, at Port Hudson, La. 

SULLIVAN, PATRICK. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10. 

1862. M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SWEENEY, DENNIS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 21, 1862. 

M. Oct 21, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. Not on muster 

in roll. 



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TAYLOR, ANDREW. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 6, 1862. 
THOMPSON, DAVID. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 16, 1S62. Deserted Dec. 6, 1862. 
TRACEY, THOMAS. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18. 1862. Discharged Dec. 25, 1863, disability. 
WAI.CH, THOMAS. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Oct. 18, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WELCH, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15, 1862. Deserted Dec. 22, 1862. 
WILLIAMS. JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
WILSON, JOHN F. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 7, 1862. M. 

Nov. 15. 1862. Transferred Mar. 6, 1863. to 2nd R. I. 

Cav. 



COMPANY K 

TIMOTHY TEAFFE. Capt. Boston. Com. Oct. 30, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. Com. Capt. in 55th reg't 9 months. 

Reg't disbanded and men transferred to the 48th reg't. 

Resigned and mustered out from date of muster in 

Nov. 1, 1862. 
JOSEPH SCOTT TODD. Capt. Rowley. Com. Dec. 22, 

1862. Enl. Aug. 16, 1862. M. Sept. 24, 1862. M. O. Sept. 

3, 1863. Priv. Co. D. Capt. Dec. 22, 1862. Mustered 

Dec. 30. 1862. 
CHARLES F. DONNELLY. 1st Lt. Boston. Com. Oct 

30, 1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. Com. 1st Lt. in 55th reg't 

9 months. Reg't disbanded and men transferred to 

48th reg't. Discharged by G. O. No. 1354, Mass., Dec. 

20, 1862. 
LEACH CLARK. 1st Lt. Boston. Com. Dec. 22, 1862. Enl. 

Oct. 31, 1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 

Priv. 1st Lt. Dec. 22, I860. Mustered Dec. 28, 1862. 
DENNIS J. GORMAN. 2nd Lt. Boston. Com. Oct. 30, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. Com. 2nd Lt. in 55th reg't 9 months. 

Reg't disbanded and men transferred. Resigned and 

mustered out Dec. 15, 1862. 



180 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

HENRY J. BELLEN. 2nd Lt. Boston. Com. Dec. 22, 1862. 

Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. Priv. 2nd Lt. Dea 

22, 1862. Mustered Dec. 27, 1862. Resigned Mar. 7, 

1863. 
WILLIAM B. HARDING. 2nd. Lt. Salisbury. Com. May 

12, 1862. Enl. Aug. 9, 1862. M. Sept. 16, 1862. M. O. 

Sept. 3, 1863. 1st Sergt. Co. A. 2nd LL May 12, 1863. 

Mustered June 23, 1863. 
.T.A.MES P. FORD. 1st Sergt Roxbury. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Pec. y, 1S62. Absent when the reg't was mus- 
tered out. 
MARTIN CURLEY. Sergt W. Roxbury. Enl. Oct 22. 

1862. M. Nov. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
FRANCIS DONAHOE. Sergt. Boston. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
PATRICK FLAHERTY. Sergt. Roxbury. Enl. Sept I. 

1862. M. Dec. 7, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
JAMES McGLYNN. Sergt Boston. Enl. Oct 15, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
JOHN SCOTT. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
ROGER GRIFFIN. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. Killed May 27, 1863, in charge on 

Port Hudson, La. 
JAMES KIERMAN. Corpl. St Johns. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
JOHN CONLON. Corpl. Springfield. Enl. Oct 15, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
DAN PEL DUG AN. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 5, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
'T'HOMAS DAVIS. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
WILLIAM J. WHITE. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Oct 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. ], 1S62. Discharged May 4, 1863, disability. 
JAMES COFFEY. Corpl. Roxbury. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. Discharged Aug. 1, 1863, to re-enlist 
.rOHN FITZGERALD. Corpl. Boston. Enl. Oct. 15. 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept 3. 1863. 
MATHEW COUGHLAN. Corpl. Milford. Enl. Oct 20, 

1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 131 

JOHN COLLAHAN. Corpl. Charlestown. Enl. Oct. 20, 

1862. M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOHN CURRAN. Musician. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
JOSEPH GALLAGHER. Musician. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 

1862. M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
JAMES WARREN. Musician. Boston. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. Deserted Dec. 29, 1862. 
BARRETT, PETER. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BETANCOURT, MANUEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 

1862. M. Dec. 9, 18C2 Discharged May 8, 1863, to re- 
enlist. 
BROWN, DENNIS J. Priv. Boston. Enl. Sept. 3. 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
BYRNE, WILLIAM. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Oct. 11, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CARR, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 20. 1862. M. 

Nov. 1, 1SG2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CARROLL, PETER. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 1, 1862. M. 

Nov. 1, 1S62. Died April 11, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La. 
CHERRY, EDWARD. I'riv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
COURTNEY, EUGENE J. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct 13, 

1862. M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CROSBY, HUGH. Priv. Waltham. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 18C3. 
CROWLEY, DANIEL. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
CURRAN, SIMON. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. M. 

Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3. 1863. 
DALEY, BARLETT. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Nov. 12, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DALEY, THOMAS. Priv. New Bedford. Enl. Oct. 81, 

1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
DOOLEY, JAMES. Priv. So. Braintree. Enl. Oct. 20. 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. i. 1863. 
BRWIN. THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 30, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. Dischareed Mar. 7, 1863, to r«-enllBt. 



132 Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 

FAY, WILLIAM. Priv. Milford. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, J 86?. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S6S. 
GIRRATY JOHN F. Priv. Canton. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
OILMAN, JEREMIAH J. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
KELLEY, JAMES. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
LALOR, MICHAEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Dec. 0, 1S62. Discharged May 13, 1863, to re-enlist. 
LANDY, WILLIAM. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 5, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 18G2. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63, 
MAHONEY, THOMAS. Priv. Lawrence. Enl. Nov. 1, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
MALLETT, PETER. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1S62. Died Mar. 9, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La. 
McGEE, SAMUEL. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. Absent when the regt was mustered out. 
McLEOD, ALEXANDER. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 10, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. Died July 2, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La. 
McNABB, THOMAS. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Sept. 23, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
NEVIN, JOHN. Priv. Roxbury. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. M, 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'BRIEN, PATRICK. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
O'CONNOR, JAMES. Priv. Quincy. Enl. Oct. 8, 1862. M. 

Nov. 1, 1862. Transferred April 27, 1863, to Co. G. 
O'REILLY, CHARLES. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. Absent when the reg't was mustered 

out. 
PATTERSON, ANTHONY. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 10, 

1862. M. Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
PETERSON, JOHN. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1S62. Died Aug. 2, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La. 
RAND, JAMES. Priv. Lowell. Enl. Oct. 15, 1862. M. 

Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
RYAN, EDWARD. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 30, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. Discharged Aug. 1, 1863, to re-enllsL 



Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 133 

SCOTT, JOHN, 1st. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15, 1862. M. 

Dec 9, 1862. Discharged May 13, 1863, to re-enlist 
SHAW, CHARLES B. Priv. No. Bridgewater. Enl. Nov. 

1. 1862. M. Dec. 9, 1862. Died May 25, 1863, at Baton 

Rouge, La. 
SHEEHAN, TIMOTHY. Priv. Milford. Enl. Oct. 20, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1. 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1863. 
SMITH, GEORGE. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 15. 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept. 3, 1S63. 
TAFT, ANDREW. Priv. Framingham. Enl. Nov. 30, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. Discharged Aug. 1, 1863, to re-enlist. 
TEVAN, GEORGE H. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 27, 1862. 

M. Dec. 9, 1862. Absent when the reg't was mustered 

out. 
THOMPSON, CHARLES H. Priv. New Bedford. Enl. Oct 

20, 1862. M. Nov. 1, 1862. Absent in hospital at New 

Orleans, La., when the reg't was mustered out. 
TIERMAN, THOMAS. Priv. Boston. Enl. Oct. 4, 1862. 

M. Nov. 1, 1862. M. O. Sept 3, 1863. 
WELSH, HENR\. Priv. Boston. Enl. Nov. 8, 1862. M. 

Dec. 9, 1862. M. O. Sept 3. 1863. 



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